IMPROVED EDITION 






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ANALYSIS 



OF THB 



ENGLISH SENTENCE, 



DESIGNED FOR ADVANCED CLASSES 

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ENGLISH GRAMMAR. 

BY Af ST WELCH, A. M. 



PRINCIPAL OF MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 





NEW YORK : 
A. S. BARNES & B 

51 & 53 JOHN STREET. 

KU> »Y BOOKIBLLESS, 8IRKRAIXY, THKOI'OH'jI'T THE UNITED STATU 

1862. 

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Yeai 1802, 

BY A. S. BARNES & BURR, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern 

District of New York. 



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WILLIAM DENYSE, Stereotyper, 
183 William-street, New York. 



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PREFACE. 



This treatise, designed for advanced classes in 
English Grammar, is given to the public with the 
hope that it may contribute somewhat to the philo- 
sophical study of our language. A systematic 
analysis of the English Sentence, should hold a 
prominent rank, merely as an important means of 
mental development. In this respect no branch of 
study has been regarded so dry and sterile. A 
few years ago the attainments of most teachers in 
grammar were, to the last degree, superficial, and 
their instructions systematically wrong. The student 
of Kirkham supposed that his order of parsing 
exhausted the subject, and the disciple of Murray 
knew far more of rules than relations. English 
Grammar became distasteful and repulsive, because 



4 PREFACE. 

it furnished no genuine mental aliment. A hard 
nomenclature and a host of numbered rules were 
obstacles which very few fairly surmounted, and 
young pupils turned with disgust, from verbal recita- 
tions which gave exercise to the memory only. 

But we are happy in the fact that this state of 
things is gradually changing. Led by eminent 
grammarians, teachers are beginning to give less 
attention to old formulas, and more to the philosophy 
of language ; and the day cannot be far off when 
a thorough knowledge of the structure of the English 
Sentence, can be gained from English grammars. 

If the following system shall aid, in any degree, 
so important a reform, its object will be accomplished. 
Its principal aim is to remedy the defects of the old 
grammars, by a more simple and just classification. 
Accordingly, we have changed the old nomenclature 
wherever it was inadequate or meaningless ; yet no 
innovations have been made without the most serious 
and urgent reasons. 

In completing our task, we have been influenced 
neither by a love of novelty on the one hand, nor 
on the other, by a foolish attachment to time-honored 
Errors. 



PREFACE. 5 

Whatever is new in our system, has received the 
unanimous sanction of numerous Teachers' Institutes, 
and the entire system has been thoroughly tested by 
teaching it to advanced classes in the State Normal 
School. 

It is earnestly hoped that every Teacher who 
peruses this work, will desire to find the truth, rather 
than a confirmation of his own peculiar views, and 
that he will condemn no part without a careful 
examinatian of the whole. 

We gratefully acknowledge our obligations to Mr. 
Sill, of the State Normal School, for important aid 
in preparing the work for the press, and we give 
our thanks to numerous friends who have kindly 
expressed an interest in its publication. 

Michigan State Normal School, ) 
Ypsilanti. f 



PKEFACE TO THE KEVISED EDITION. 



In the present Eevised Edition, will be found 
important changes, to which I earnestly invite the 
teacher's attention. 

The article on Synthesis, which occupied the first 
pages of the old edition has disappeared, and a chap- 
ter of rigid definitions comprising the subject matter 
of English Grammar, supplies its place. This chap- 
ter will enable the student to take a cursory review of 
all the grammatical elements before entering upon the 
study of advanced Analysis. 

In the disposal of Interrogative Pronouns, I have 
adopted a classification which is more simple and 
just than the former one. 

In the treatment of the Yerb, while I have endea- 
vored to present a systematic analysis of its actual 
attributes, I have rejected many so-called properties 
which are exhibited in text-books, but are not to be 
found in the language. 



8 PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION. 

In making these important changes, I have been 
guided by the views of eminent teachers who have 
submitted my system of Analysis to the test of recita- 
tion, and I confidently believe that, in its new form, 
it will find increased favor. 

I have derived great advantage in the work of re- 
vision from the aid and experience of Mr. J. M. B. 
Sill, who has, for several years, used the work as a 
text-book for his advanced classes in the Michigan 
Normal School. The new order adopted in the 
arrangement of subdivisions as well as other important 
improvements, must be accredited to him. In truth, 
the whole revision is the product of our united labor, 
and every change has received our joint approbation. 

A. S. Welsh. 

Michigan Normal School, ) 
March, 1862. 5 



CONTENTS- 



CHAPTER L 

DEFINITIONS. 



PAGE 

Nouns 13 

Pronouns 15 

Adnominal Words 17 

Verbs 18 

Connections 19 

Independent Words 20 

CHAPTER H. 

GRAMMATICAL ELEMENTS. 

Words 21 

Phrases 23 

The Sentence 23 

Connectives 26 

Secondary Connectives 29 

Essential Elements of the English Sentence 31 

Synopsis of the Analysis of the English Sentence 32 

CHAPTER HI. 

THE SUBJECT. 

Noun as Subject 34 

Personal Pronoun as Subject 36 

Peculiar uses of Personal Pronouns 38 

Intensive Personal Pronouns as Subject 44 

Double Personal Pronouns as Subject 45 

Relative Pronouns as Subject 46 

Compound Relative Pronouns as Subject 49 



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PAGE 

Interrogative Pronouns as Subject 51 

Adjective Pronouns as Subject 54 

Sentence as Subject 61 

Independent Sentence as Subject 61 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE OBJECT. 

Word as Object 62 

Noun as Object 63 

Personal Pronoun as Object 63 

Intensive Personal Pronoun as Object 65 

Double Personal Pronoun as Object 65 

Relative Pronoun as Object 66 

Double Object 67 

Dependent Sentence as Object 71 

Independent Sentence as Object 72 

CHAPTER V. 

THE COMPLEMENT OF THE NEUTER VERB. 

Nominal Elements as Complement. 

Noun as Complement 74 

Pronoun as Complement 75 

Sentence as Complement 76 

Adnominal Elements as Complement. 

Adjective as Complement 77 

Participle as Complement. . . 77 

Phrase as Complement , 78 

CHAPTER VI. 

the verb. 

Definitions 79 

Person and Number 80 

Mode 82 

Verbals 84 

Infinitives ... 85 



CONTENTS. 11 

PAGE 

Uses of the Infinitive 86 

Participles . 88 

Tense 92 

Formation of the Tenses 94 

Definition of the Tenses 96 

Voice 97 

Conjugation 98 

Irregular Verbs 101 

List of Irregular Verbs 105 

Defective Verbs Ill 



CHAPTER VH. 

ADJUNCTS. 

Adnominal Adjuncts 113 

Adnominal Words 113 

Comparison of Adjectives 119 

Adnominal Phrases 125 

Adnominal Sentences 131 

Adverbial Adjuncts 140 

Adverbial Words 141 

Adverbial Phrases 142 

Adverbial Sentences 151 

Adjuncts of the Object 153 

Adjuncts of the Complement 154 

CHAPTER VIII. 

SUBJECT OF VERBS INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES. 

Subject of the Infinitive 156 

Subject of the Participles 158 



CHAPTER IX. 

OBJECTS OF INFINmVES AND PARTICIPLES. 

Object of Infinitives 160 

Object of Participles 161 



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CHAPTER X. 

GENERAL LIMITATION OF WORDS. 

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Adnominal Words 163 

Adnominal Phrases 168 

Adnominal Sentences 170 

Adverbial Words 173 

Adverbial Phrases 174 

Adverbial Sentences 177 

CHAPTER XI. 
Independent Words 179 

CHAPTER XII. 

Complement op Words 182 

Examples for Exercise and Review. 185 



ANALYSIS 

OP 

THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



CHAPTER I 

DEFINITIONS. 
NOUNS. 

1. A Noun is a word used as a name. 

2. Nouns are either singular or plural. 

3. A singular noun is the name of a single thing 
or class of things ; as, Thomas, man, horse. 

4. A plural noun is the name of more than one 
thing or class of things ; as, men, horses, &c. 

5. Collective nouns are those which, in the singular 
number, denote several objects ; as, multitude, army, 
mob, crowd. 

Note. — All collective nouns are in the neuter gender. 

6. A verbal noun is a participle or an infinitive 
used as the name of the act or state which its verb 
expresses. 



14 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — 1. Skating is a pleasant amusement. 

2. I regret leaving you. 

3. In the beginning God created the heaven and the 

earth. 

4. He is skillful in fencing. 

5. To die for one's country is glorious. 

6. His occupation was plowing. 
1. We attempted to escape. 

8. What came ye forth for to see ? 

7. Grammatically, nouns have four genders, viz., 
the masculine, the feminine, the common, and the neuter. 

8. Nouns which are names of males, are in the 
masculine gender. 

9. Nouns which are names of females, are in the 
feminine gender. 

10. Nouns which are names of objects having no 
sex, are in the neuter gender. 

11. Nouns which apply to objects of both sexes, are 
in the common gender. 

12. Nouns have three persons, viz., first, second, and 
third. 

13. When a noun is the name of the person speak- 
ing, it is in the first person; as, "And I, John, saw 
these things, and heard them. ,, 

14. When a noun is the name of the person ad- 
dressed, it is in the second person ; as, "Friends, 
Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears." 

15. When a noun is the name of the person spo- 
ken of, it is in the third person. 



ANALYSIS OF TEIE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 15 

16. Nouns have seven grammatical offices. 

1. Subject of a sentence : as, The time has arrived. 

2. Object of a transitive verb : as, We have conquered the 

enemy. 

3. Complement of a neuter verb : as, These are sailors. 

4. Essential element of a phrase : as, By the river, &c. 

5. Subject of an infinitive : as, He expected the soldiers to 

retreat. 

6. Adnominal word : as, Aaron's rod ; William the Conqueror, 

7. Independent word: as, "Oh, the dark and dreary winter. 

PRONOUNS. 

17. Pronouns are words used instead of nouns. 

18. Pronouns are of four classes, viz., personal, 
relative, interrogative, and adjective. 

19. A personal pronoun is one whose form indicates 
its person, and usually also its number and office in 
the sentence. 

20. Personal pronouns are of three classes, viz., 
pure, intensive, and double. 

21. The pure personal pronouns are i", thou, you, 
he, she, and it, with their variations. 

22. Intensive personal pronouns are those which 
are generally used to express greater emphasis : they 
are myself, thyself, yourself, himself, herself, and itself, 
and their plurals. 

Examples. — 1. They themselves deceived us. 

2. James and myself w ere witnesses of the act. 

Note. — These pronouns also perform the office of reciprocals, but 



16 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

in such cases do not differ sufficiently from the true intensives to 
demand a separate classification. 

Examples of this use. — 1. I hurt myself. 

2. They walked by themselves. 

23. A double personal pronoun is one which is 
simple in form but double in use, representing both 
the possessor and the thing possessed : they are mine, 
thine, his, hers, its, and their plurals. 

Examples. — 1. Yours is a difficult task. 

2. He praised your actions but condemned mine. 



RELATIVE PRONOUNS. 

24. A Relative pronoun is one which connects a 
sentence to the word for which it stands; as, " The 
stone which the builders rejected," &c. 

25. Eelative pronouns are of two kinds, viz., pure 
and compound. The pure relatives are who, which, 
tfiat, and sometimes as and than. 

26. A Compound relative pronoun is simple inform 
but compound in office, including both the antecedent 
and the relative. They are whoever, vjhosoever, what, 
whatever, and whatsoever. 

Examples. — 1. I will give my vote for whatever my country's needs 
demand. 

2. Whatever troubles you troubles me. 

3. I will do whatever ytfu require. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 17 

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS. 

27. When either of the pronouns, who, which, or 
what, is used to introduce a question or a sentence 
which is the object of a transitive verb, it is an 

interrogative pronoun. 

Examples. — 1. Wlio can understand you ? 

2. We discovered who planned the enterprise. 

3. What annoys you? 

ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS. 

28. An adjective used without its noun and stand* 
ing for it, is called an adjective pronoun. 

Examples. — 1. These are curious stories. 

2. Some believed and some doubted, 

3. The good will be rewarded. 

ADNOMINAL WORDS. 

29. Any word, whether adjective, participle, noun, or 
pronoun, used to limit a noun or pronoun, is an ad- 
nominal word. 

30. An adjective is a word whose sole use is to 
limit the meaning of a noun or pronoun. 

Examples. — 1. Many Indians were present. 

2. Abundant harvests have enriched us. 

3. What troubles distress you ? 

31. A participle is an ad nominal word when it 
limits a noun or pronoun. 



18 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — 1. The hunters returning from the chase, were lost in 
the forest. 
2. We having warned you well, acquit ourselves of 
blame. 

Note. — The participle is a word derived from a verb and partaking 
its nature. It has two offices : it may be a verbal noun (see 6), or an 
adnominal word, as above. 

32. Nouns may become adnominal words in three 
ways: by possession, by apposition, and by specification. 

Examples. — 1. William's hat. 

2. Paul the Apostle, 

3. President Lincoln. 

4. John Milton. 

5. A gold dollar. 

33. Pronouns may be adnominal words in two 
ways : by possession, as, my coat, and by apposition, 
as, 

" And the Old Man of the Mountains, 
He, the Manitou of Mountains, 
Opened wide his rocky doorways"— 



VERBS. 

34. A verb is a word used to assert, command, 
question, or assume: to assert, as, The snowfalls ; to 
command, as, "Return to thy dwelling, all lonely, 
return ;" to question, as, "Lives there a man," &c. ? 
to assume, as, If he questions me, I will answer. 

Verbs have person, number, and tense. 

35. Person and number in the verb is a change of 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



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form to agree with the person and number of its sub- 
ject. 

Note. — Person and number is a modification which, in the English 
verb, is exceedingly limited, occurring only in the present tense, third 
person, and singular number ; except in the verb to be. 



Examples. — I have. 


I strike. 


You have. 


You strike 


He has. 


He strikes. 



Tense is a change in the form of the verb to denote 
the time or time and state of that which the verb ex- 



presses. 








Examples.— 




TIME. 


STATE. 




I 


walked. 






We 


ran. 






They 


listen. 






I 


had 


walked. 




We 


had 


run. 




They 


have 


listened 



Note. — For Mode, see Verb. 



CONNECTIVES. 

36. Connectives are words that unite the elements 
of language. 

37. There are two kinds of connectives, viz., co- 
ordinate and secondary. 

38. A co-ordinate connective joins two or more 
elements in the same grammatical relation. 

Examples. — 1. He can read and write. 

2. They ran rapidly and with ease. 



20 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

39. A secondary connective joins an adjunctive 

phrase or sentence to the word limited. 

Examples. — 1. He came after you returned. 
2. He came after dinner. 

INDEPENDENT WORDS. 

40. Words having no grammatical relation to other 
words, are independent words. 

41. They are of three kinds : nouns independent 
by address or exclamation, interjections } and euphonic 
words. 

42. Examples of nouns independent by address : 

" Child amid the flowers at play. 

While the red light fades away ; 

Mother, with thine earnest eye, 

Ever following silently — 
* * * * 

Lift the heart and bend the knee." 

43. Examples of nouns independent by exclama- 
tion : 

The graves of our fathers, are they not forsaken ? 
" Oh, the wasting of the famine, 
Oh, the Hasting of the fever." 

44. Examples of interjections : 

"Alas, my noble boy that thou shouldst die." 
" Charge, Chester, charge ; on, Stanley, on /" 

45. Examples of euphonic words : 

" There was a man, a Roman soldier." 
" TJiere is no union here of hearts, 
That finds not here an end." 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 21 



CHAPTER II. 

GRAMMATICAL ELEMENTS. 

1. A Grammatical Element is a word or group of 
words which performs a distinct office in language. 

2. The English Language has three Elements : the 
word, the phrase, and the sentence, 

WORDS. 

3. A Word is an articulate sound or a combination 
of articulate sounds represented by letters and forming 
the simplest grammatical element. 

4. Words have nine grammatical offices : 

I. Subject of a sentence. 

The subject of a sentence is that concerning which the 
verb expresses something ; as, Winter comes. 

II. Verb. 

A verb is a word that asserts, commands, questions, 
or assumes ; as, I tvalk ; Depart ! Does he ? They 
heard me when I spoke. 

III. Object of a transitive verb or participle. 

The object of a transitive verb or participle is the 
element required to complete its meaning; as, We 
found the thieves. Entering the house. 



22 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

IV. Complement of a neuter verb. 

Note. — The complement of a verb is any element necessary to com- 
plete its sense. 

The complement of a neuter verb is an adjunct of the 
subject necessary to complete the sense of the verb ; 
as, The man was angry ; The people were frightened. 

V. Essential Element of a phrase. 

A word is the essential element of a phrase when it 
is joined by a secondary connective to another word 
for the purpose of limiting it ; as, By the river we sat ; 
I heard of him ; A man of business. 

VI. Adnominal Word. 

An adnominal word is one which limits a noun or 
pronoun ; as, A beautiful angel ; The sun setting in the 
west. 

VII. Adverbial Word. 

An adverbial word is one that limits a verb, parti- 
ciple, adjective, or adverb. 

VIII. Connective. 

A connective is a word which joins the elements of 
language ; as, I will read the book when he returns it ; 
The man was standing by the boat. 

IX. Independent Words. 

An independent word is one that has no grammatical 
relations to other words. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 23 

PHRASES. 

5. A Phrase is an element composed of a noun or 

pronoun and its connective, and generally used to limit 

a ivord. 

Note. — When the verb infinitive or participle becomes the essential 
element of a phrase, it is a verbal noun. 

6. Phrases are adnominal or adverbial. 

7. A Phrase which limits a noun or pronoun, is 
called an adnominal phrase. 

Examples. — Men of rank. 
Girls at home. 
Who of you. 
One with them. 

8. A Phrase limiting a verb, adjective, participle, or 
adverbial ivord, is called an adverbial phrase. 

Examples. — Come with me. 

We took him on trust. 
Clinging to life. 
Dead in sin. 

THE SENTENCE. 

9. A Sentence is a group of elements expressing a 
thought. It consists of either two or three elements, 
the number depending on the nature of the verb. 

10. Sentences are transitive, intransitive, or neuter. 

11. A transitive sentence is one whose verb re- 
quires a complement which is its object. 



24 ANALYSIS OP THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — God created man. 

The farmer ploughs his fields. 

12. An intransitive sentence is one whose verb 
requires no complement. 

Examples.— Trees grow. — Clouds fly. — We live. 

13. A neuter sentence is one whose verb requires 
a complement which is an adjunct of its subject. 

Examples. — William is studious. — The stranger was dying. 

Note.— The Predicate is that which is affirmed of the subject. In 
the transitive sentence, it is made up of the verb and its object : in the 
intransitive sentence, it is merely the verb : in the neuter sentence, it 
includes the verb and m^Mjtmci of the subject. The verb of the neuter 
sentence is, usually, some variation of the neuter verb to be. Careful 
distinction should however be made between the neuter verb to be and 
the neuter sentence, as the latter may contain any verb whose sense 
is completed by an adjunct of the subject. 

Example. — William seems studious. 

Note. — The verb to be is sometimes intransitive, denoting existence 
simply. 

Example. — God is. 

14. Sentences are either independent or dependent 

15. An independent sentence is one which makes 
complete sense in itself. 

Examples.— Homer wrote the Iliad. 
CaBsar subdued Gaul. 
Go thou. 

The sense of these sentence* is complete as they 
stand. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 25 

16. A dependent sentence is one that does not make 

sense in itself but depends upon the word which it 

limits. 

Examples. — Printing was unknown when Homer wrote the Iliad. 
The sentence, Homer wrote the Iliad, is rendered 
dependent by the word when, which connects it to 
unknown. 

If I go. 

Though he falls. 

Unless they perform their promise. 

17. Dependent sentences are nominal, adnominal, or 
adverbial. 

18. A dependent sentence is nominal when used as 
the subject of a sentence, the object of a transitive 
verb or participle, or the essential element of a phrase. 

Examples. — That you have wronged me doth appear in this. 

A messenger came saying that the army was defeated. 

I say that you are mistaken. 

He wronged me in that he slandered me. 

19. A dependent sentence is adnominal when em- 
ployed to limit a noun or pronoun. 

Examples. — He who runs may read. Who runs is used to limit the 
pronoun he ; it is, therefore, a dependent adnominal 
sentence. 
The fact that a theft was committedjW&s evident. 

20. A dependent sentence is adverbial when em- 
ployed to limit a verb, a participle, an adjective, or 
an adverb. 

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26 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE* 

Examples. — Rise when the day dawns. 
There where all are free. 
Fierce as a tiger (verb suppressed). 
He appeared fighting where his enemies were thickest. 

CONNECTIVES. 

21. Connectives are words which unite the elements 
of language. 

22. Connectives are either co-ordinate or secondary. 

23. A co-ordinate connective unites elements in 
the same grammatical relation. 

24. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more words tohich are subjects of the same sentence. 

Examples. — Men, women, and children trudged on together. 
The father and the son are alike guilty. 

Note. — When a co-ordinate connective unites more than two ele- 
ments it usually stands between the last two. 

25. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 

more dependent nominal sentences which are subjects of 

the same sentence. 

Examples. — How he broke his chain, and why he pursued me, are 
difficult questions to answer. 
That you were angry and that he was unreasonable, 
appeared from the testimony. 

26. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more verbs having the same subject. 

Examples. — The noble animal reared, sprang forward, and cleared 
the ditch. 
The Athlete will fight, box, or wrestle. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 27 

27. A co-ordinate connective may unite two or more 
words ■ which are objects of the same verb. 

Examples. — God created the Heaven and the Earth. 

I have forsaken friends, kindred, and country. 

28. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more nominal sentences which are objects of a transitive 
verb or participle. 

Examples. — William knew that the crown must ultimately descend to 
him, and that he should receive it unimpaired. 
A messenger came saying that the chief was dead and 

that his wife was distracted with grief. 
I do not know whence he conies nor where he dwells. 

29. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more adnomial words limiting the same noun or pronoun. 

Examples. — A man pious and plain. 

Wearied but not disheartened we followed the guide. 

He died exiled, deserted, and disgraced. 

A soldier listed in Messiah's band yet giving quarter 

to Abaddon's troops. 
Gentle yet not dull. 
Hear what they were, the progeny of Sin, alike and 

oft combined but differing much in mode of giving 

pain. 

30. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more adnomial phrases limiting the same noun or pro- 
noun. 

Examples. — Do you choose enmity with God or with man? 

The power of truth and of eloquence is irresistible. 

31. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 



28 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

more dependent adnominal sentences limiting the same 
noun or pronoun. 

Examples. — He reported the news that the ship was lost and that 
all the passengers were drowned. 
The room where he wrote and where lie received his 
friends. 

32. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more adverbial words. 

Examples. — Slowly and sadly we laid him down. 

They have done this not hastily, nor rashly, nor 

unadvisedly. 
They fought like brave men long and well. 

33. A co-ordinate connective often connects two or 
more adverbial phrases in the same construction. 

Examples. — Her sister plants in their own clime, around the stream 
and by the fount, bore fruit of perfect relish. 
At this same hour and on this spot, ten years ago, I 

addressed you. 
With radiant glory and with honor crowned^ 

34. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more dependent adverbial sentences limiting the same 
word. 

Examples. — Come when the blessed seals that close the pestilence 
are broke and crowded cities wail its stroke. 
Let us strive to live as God directs and conscience dic- 
tates. 

35. A co-ordinate connective may connect two or 
more independent sentences. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 29 

Examples. — Thus said the father, and the son beloved arose re- 
splendent with divinity. 

The Queen smiled but the King frowned. 

Shaftsbury argued for the bill, Halifax chiefly conducted 
the debate against it, and his speecJies showed great 
capacity. 

SECONDARY CONNECTIVES. 

36. A Secondary Connective is a word which unites 

a phrase or a dependent sentence to the word limited. 

Examples. — A man of honor. 
He who perseveres. 
The bandit approached the place where we stood. 

37. A secondary connective may connect an ad- 
nominal phrase to the noun or pronoun which it limits. 

Examples. — The field of blood. 
A judge in court. 
An agreement in writing. 
A wish for improvement. 
A desire for success. 

38. A secondary connective may connect an ad- 
nominal sentence to the noun or pronoun which it limits. 

Examples. — A rumor that all was lost, came to our ears. 

The fact that our guide was a scoundrel, was at last 
proved. 
" The captive prophet whom Jehovah gave 
The future years, described it best." 
A plain slab marks the spot w^here he sleeps. 
" Knowest thou the land where the cypress and myrtle 
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime." 

39. A. secondary connective may connect an ad- 
verbial phrase to the word which it limits. 



30 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — The earth abounded much in silent waste. 
A seraph kneeled beseeching for his ward. 
Good for nothing. 
Conflicting against itself. 
By his own hand he fell. 
Striving for the mastery. 

40. A secondary connective may unite a dependent 
adverbial sentence to the word which it limits. 

ExAMPLes. — After the storm had ceased we found the shore. 

When youth complained the ancient sinner shook his 

hoary head. 
It shall be done, for the mouth of God hath spoken it. 
The fruit was so delicious that it melted in the mouth. 

41. A secondary connective may connect a nominal 
sentence to a transitive verb or participle of which it is the 
object. 

Examples.— Peter denied that he knew his Lord. 

The old man predicted when it would rain. 

The broken-hearted sufferer desired that he might die* 

He did not understand why I did it. 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



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ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



Transitive. 



Subject. 



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pronoun. 



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( tive. participle, or adverb. 



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noun. 



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( ciple, adjective, or adverb. 



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noun. 



{ When limiting a verb, parti 
\ ciple, adjective, or adverb. 



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42. SYNOPSIS OF THE ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



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( Any noun. 
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Personal. 



( Infinitive. 
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( Pure. 

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Double. 



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( Intransitive. 
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I Neuter. 



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i Independent. 
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Double. 



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Nominal. 



Adnominal. 



Word. 



Noun. 



Pronoun. 



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( Any Noun. 
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f Personal. 

Relative. 

Interrog. 

I Adjective. 



Direct and indirect. 

A noun and its adjunct in apposition. 

A noun and an adnom. word. 

An infinitive with its sub. 



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Pronoun. 



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Phrase. 



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CHAPTER III. 

THE SUBJECT. 

1. The Subject of a sentence is that element of which 
something is expressed by the verb. 

In the example, 

" Before Granada's fated walls the Spauish army lay," 

army is the word of which something is expressed, 
and lay is the word that expresses it. 

2. The subject may be a word, or a sentence. 

Examples. — The Creator loves his creatures. 
Go thou and do likewise. 
That James was a tyrant, appears from his acts. 

3. Any element used as the subject of a sentence is 
called nominal. 

4. A nominal word used as the subject of a sen- 
tence, may be a noun or a pronoun. 

5. One or more nouns may be used as the subject 
of a sentence. 

Examples. — The vessel cleaves the wave. 

The night and the storm are upon us. 

6. The subject of a sentence may be a collective 
noun ; as, The crowd gathers around the hero. The 
multitude filled the streets. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 35 

7. The subject of a sentence may be a verbal 
noun. (See Chapter I, 6.) 

Examples. — 

I. Infinitives : 

1. To accomplish great deeds was his aim. 

2. To glorify God and to bless humanity are the worthiest 

objects of life. 

II. Participial Nouns : 

1. Skating is a pleasant amusement. 

2. Writing is serious labor. 

3. Building castles in the air is unprofitable. 

4. My being absent delayed the recitation. 

8. It must be remembered that the participial noun 
retains the nature of the verb quite as fully as the 
ordinary participle. Therefore it may be intransitive, 
transitive, or neuter. When transitive it will take an 
object, when neuter, a complement. In example No, 
4, above, building is the subject of the sentence, and 
as it is transitive, takes for its object the noun castles. 
In No. 4, above, being is the subject of delayed and 
absent is its complement. 

Note (a). — In treating of the properties of the noun or pronoun the 
word case is superfluous. It adds to the nomenclature of grammar 
without giving any aid in studying the construction of the language. 
Case is a relation indicated by a change in the termination or form of 
a noun or pronoun. Now, in English, the noun has no change of ter- 
mination except to show the possessive relation. But the apostrophe 
(') or the apostrophic ('s,) which indicates the relation of ownership, 
renders the noun possessive the adjunct of the noun possessed. We 
have, therefore, classed it with the adjuncts of the noun and pronoun. 
The words subject and object, &c. (See Offices of Nouns), fully express 
the various relations of nouns in our language. 



36 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 

9. The subject does not always stand before the 
verb. Frequently the usual order is inverted for 
poetic measure, euphony, or vivacity. 

Examples. — All golden is the plain with wheat. 
44 When like a crag down Apennine 
Rushed Auster through the fray." 

PRONOUN AS SUBJECT. 

10. The subject may be a Pronoun, personal, rela- 
tive, interrogative, or adjective. 

Examples. — / write. 

The stone tvhich was torn from the mountain. 
Many obeyed the command. 

THE PERSONAL PRONOUN AS SUBJECT. 

11. The Personal pronoun is called personal because 
its form is varied to indicate the person of the noun 
for which it stands. If, for example, the noun repre- 
sented is the person speaking, the pronoun / will not 
only stand for it, but will also indicate that it is the 
first person. So, thou and you, thine, &c, invariably 
stand for the names of the persons addressed, thus 
indicating that the nouns represented are in the 
second person. 

Personal pronouns are of three kinds, viz., pure, 
intensive, and double. 

PURE PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 
They are I, thou, you, he, she and it. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 37 

12. The pronouns thou and you represent nouns in 
both genders. No change in the form of the word 
is necessary to show distinction of sex, since the ob- 
jects are present and supposed to be known ; but the 
objects represented by the pronouns of the third person, 
are for the most part absent ; hence the necessity that 
these pronouns should show not only the person of 
the noun but also its gender. From this necessity 
have arisen the forms he, she, and it 

13. In other respects the personal pronoun is very 
convenient on account of its flexibility. The forms, I, 
thou, he, she, it, him, her, &c, represent nouns in the 
singular number ; but if the noun represented be 
plural, we have the forms, we, you, they, them. If the 
pronoun becomes the subject of a sentence, we use 
one of the forms, I, thou, he, she, it, if singular ; and 
we, ye or you, they t if plural. But if the pronoun be- 
comes the object, we have one of the forms, me, thee 
or you, him, her, it, if singular ; and us, them, if 

plural. 

14. The personal pronoun, then, may show four 

properties by its variations, viz. — person, number, 
gender, and its relation to other words in the sen- 
tence. Its variations to show change of relation are 
called forms* 

* On account of the various abuses of the word case, it has been deemed best 
to employ the word form instead, while treating of the properties of pronouns. 



38 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

15. FORMS OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUN AS SUBJECT. 



First Person. 
Masc. or Fern. 


Second Person. 
Masc. or Fern. 


Third Person. 
Masc. Fern. Neut. 


Singular. I. 
Plural. We. 


Thou or You. 
You or Ye. 


He. She. It. 
They. They. They, 


EXAMPLES.- 


-/shall walk. 
We are fatigued. 
Thou art holy. 
Ye are sinful. 
You can succeed. 
You will all perish. 
She excels in music. 
It is falling. 
They are ripe. 





PECULIAR USES OF PERSONAL PRONOUNS. 

16. Pronouns of the first and second person gener- 
ally stand for a noun suppressed. 

17. Thou and its variations are obselete except in 
poetry and solemn style. 

18. You is not changed in form to express gender 
or number. 

19. They is the common plural for he, she, and it, 
and may, consequently, stand for a noun plural of the 
masculine, feminine, or neuter gender. 

20. Neuter nouns in the singular are always re- 
presented by the pronoun it. But the word it is not 
always a neuter pronoun. This little word performs 
many distinct offices in the language, as shown by the 
following examples. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 39 

OFFICES OF IT. 

21. (a.) It may stand for nouns in any gender. 

Examples. — It was a man. 

It was the ladies. 

(6.) It may stand for nouns in either number. 

It was the old warrior. 

(c.) It stands for warrior, a noun, third person, 



singular number. 



It was the Indians. 



(d.) It represents Indians, a noun, third person, 
plural number. 

22. It may represent any one of the personal pro- 
nouns, or nouns of any gender, and number. 



Examples. — Who is it ? 
It was she. 
It is they. 

Was it the soldiers ? 
I did not say it was you. 
It is I. 



In all these cases, it is singular in form. 
23. It may also be the subject of verbs which indi- 
cate the operations of nature. 



Examples. — It rains. 
It snows. 
It lightens. 
It thunders. 



24. Since the pronoun it in these sentences stands 



40 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

for no determinate word, it may be called an indeter- 
minate pronoun. 

25. It is often used as an expletive word, as : 
11 They lorded it over God's heritage." 

26. Often the noun represented by it is some gen- 
eral word. 

Examples. — It is cold — i. e. y the weather. 

I did not suppose that it would turn out thus — i. e. y the 
affair. 



It, as the local subject representing one or more VER- 
BAL NOUNS. 

27. It is often the local subject of a sentence when it 
represents one or more verbal nouns which follow the 
verb and constitute its true subject 

It is joy to muse the page, 

(a.) It is here the local subject standing for the 
verbal noun, to muse, which is the true subject 

This is a work which it is beyond the power of man to perform. 

(b.) It, the local subject, represents the true subject TO 
perform. This may be seen by inverting the order 
of the sentence. 

This is a work to perform which is beyond the power of man. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 41 

Example. — It is a difficult feat to stand on one foot and keep one's 
position on the saddle, while the horse is at full speed. 

28. Note. — Grammarians have usually regarded the pronoun in 
examples similar to the above, as standing for the entire expression, 
i. e., the infinitive, and all the elements that limit it. Such views are 
not favorable to close analysis. The pronoun stands for the infinitive 
as limited by other words or phrases. In the example above, it repre- 
sents to stand limited by on one foot ; just as, in the sentence, " The 
greatest incitement to labor is its reward," the subject is the noun 
incitement limited by the elements greatest and to labor. 



It, as the local subject representing one or more de- 
pendent NOMINAL SENTENCES. 

29. It, used as local subject, frequently stands at 
the head of a sentence, representing one or more 
nominal sentences which follow the verb and con- 
stitute its true subject 

Example.— i£ is true that a repentance redeemed by money or per- 
formed by a substitute, could have no salutary effect on 
the sinner. 

(a.) That a repentance could have, &c, is the true 
subject of the verb is. It, the local subject, standing 
at the head of the sentence, is the representative of 
the true subject This may be seen by inverting the 
sentence, as follows : 

That a repentance redeemed by money or performed by substitute, 
could have no salutary effect on the sinner, is true. 



42 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — It is with unfeigned diffidence that we pronounce judg* 

ment on any question relating to the art of painting. 

It is manifest from many passages in these records, 

that Bannerets were admitted into the upper house, 

and that they were summoned by a writ. 

(b.) It is here a pronoun, representing the two de- 
pendent nominal sentences, that Bannerets were ad- 
mitted, and that they were summoned. 

i>0. Note. — This use of it as a leader or usher of the true subject 
which is introduced after the verb, is in accordance with the genius of 
our laDguage. It would be an awkward violation of rhetoric always 
to place a nominal sentence or phrase with numerous adjuncts, before 
the verb of the independent sentence. On the other hand, it is con- 
trary to the order of an English sentence that it should begin with a 
verb. The use of it as a leader prevents this anomaly, while har- 
mony of structure is preserved by introducing the real subject after 
the verb. 



It, as the local subject representing a dependent nominal 
sentence which requires no connective. 

31. It may be the subject representing a depen- 
dent sentence. In these cases, it is not used as a 
leader. 

The Yankee, it must be owned, icas worsted in the combat. 

(a.) It represents " the Yankee was worsted." 

32. Frequently it stands for a fact or a number of 
facte which it requires several sentences to express. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 43 

Example. — It is not so in America. 

33. We have thus shown that it may represent — 

1. Neuter nouns of the singular number. 

2. Nouns of either number and any gender 

3. Pronouns of any gender, person, and number. 

4. Certain operations of nature. 

5. One or more verbal nouns which follow the 
verb and form its true subject. 

6. One or more dependent nominal sentences 
which follow the verb and form its true subject. 

7. One or more dependent sentences which re- 
quire no connective. 

8. One or more facts expressed in several pre- 
vious sentences. 

34. The following are examples of it as local sub- 
ject, standing for a VERBAL NOUN or a dependent 

SENTENCE. 

It is true that he professes himself a supporter of toleration. 

It is your duty to tolerate the truth. 

It cannot be shown that James sincerely wished to establish free- 
dom of conscience. 

It is a remarkable circumstance, that one of the letters of Hastings 
to Dr. Johnson, bears date a very few hours after the death of Nun- 
comar. 

It must, we fear, be added that the love of money had grown upon 
him, and that he thought more about his allowances, and less about 
his duties. 



44 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

It seemed likely, at this time, that a general reconciliation would 
put an end to the quarrels which had, during some years, weakened 
and disgraced the government of Bengal. 

Of Impy's conduct, it is impossible to speak too severely. 

It is scarcely possible to mention this eminent man, without advert- 
ing to the question which his name at once suggests to every mind. 



INTENSIVE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AS SUBJECT. 

35. An intensive personal pronoun may be sub- 
ject of a sentence. 

36. The intensive personal pronouns are those 
which are generally used to express greater emphasis. 

37. They are myself, thyself, yourself himself herself 
itself and their plurals, ourselves, yourselves, and them- 
selves. 

Examples. — Your father and yourself are witnesses. 
The stranger and myself were left alone. 

(a.) Myself is here an intensive pronoun, first per- 
son, singular number, and subject of the sentence. 

38. These pronouns are formed by prefixing the 
possessive form of the personal pronouns of the first 
and second persons, or the objective form of the third 
person, to the word self or selves. 

39. These pronouns, although classed under one 
name, are not always true intensives. 

Examples. — He has ruined himself. 
I was sitting by myself. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 45 

DOUBLE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AS SUBJECT. 

40. A double personal pronoun may be subject of 
a sentence. 

41. A double personal pronoun is one which is 
simple, in form but double in office, representing 
both the possessor and the thing possessed. 

Example. — My affairs are unfortunate, yours are prosperous. 

42. The double pronouns are mine, thine, his, hers, 
ours, yours, and theirs. 

His property was saved, but mine was los„. 

(a.) Mine is a double pronoun, subject of the sen- 
tence, mine was lost. Eepresenting the thing possess- 
ed, i. e., property, it is a pronoun, third person, singu- 
lar number, subject of the sentence. Eepresenting 
the possessor, it is first person, singular number, and 
an adjunct of the subject. 

Both my books and hers were bought in the city. 

(b.) Hers is a double pronoun, representing her and 
books. Eepresenting books, it is third person, plural, 
subject of the sentence, hers were bought, &c. Eepre- 
senting the possessor, it is third person, singular, 
feminine, and an adjunct of the subject. 

43. It will be noticed that the form of these double 



46 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 

pronouns in the first and second persons, shows the 
number and person of the possessor, and in the third 
person, its number, gender and person ; while the 
number and gender of the noun possessed must be 
determined by referring to it, as it will be expressed 
in some other part of the sentence. 

Example. — Your parents are wealthy, mine are indigent. 

(a.) Here the form of the pronoun mine shows that 
in representing the possessor, it is first person, singu- 
lar number ; but representing the thing possessed, its 
number and gender must be determined by referring 
to parents , the noun for which it stands. 

44. Note. — The double pronouns have been sometimes improperly 
classed with the possessive pronouns, my, thy, his, her, &c. 

RELATIVE PRONOUNS AS SUBJECT. 

45. A relative pronoun may be subject of a sen- 
tence. 

Example. — He who labors, will succeed. 

46. A relative pronoun is one which connects a sen- 
tence to the word for which it stands. 

4/7. Note. — The noun or pronoun which is represented by a relative 
pronoun, is called the antecedent. 

48. The relative pronouns are who, which, that, and 
in some cases, as and than. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 47 

/ know one who will relieve me, 

(a.) Who is a relative pronoun, third person, sing- 
ular, subject of the sentence, who will relieve me. 
Since it connects a sentence to its antecedent one, it 
is also a secondary connective. 

49. The relative pronoun, then, always performs 
two offices — that of a pronoun, and that of a second- 
ary connective. 

Men who are devoted to learning, are not generally fond of society. 

(a.) Who is a relative pronoun, subject of the de- 
pendent sentence who are devoted, which it connects to 
its antecedent men. It is, therefore, a secondary con- 
nective. 

Note. — The three following distinctions between the personal and 
relative pronouns, should be carefully studied. 

50. The personal pronouns change their form to 
indicate the person, gender, and number of the nouns 
for which they stand. On the other hand, the form 
of the relative pronoun is never changed for this pur- 
pose, the same word representing a noun or pronoun 
of any gender, person, or number. In the examples, 
"I who speak," " you who speak," &c, the pronoun 
who remains the same, while the personal pronouns 
vary. 

51. The personal pronoun is used simply to stand 



48 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

for a noun, while the relative is employed to intro- 
duce a sentence which affirms some quality or circum- 
stance of the noun to which it relates : hence the sen- 
tence introduced by the relative is always adnominal. 

52. The personal pronoun is never a connective, and 
may stand anywhere in the sentence-, while the rela- 
tive is always a connective, and stands at the head of 
the sentence which it introduces. 

53. Who stands for the names of persons and supe- 
rior beings. 

* 54. Which stands for the names of lower animals, 
inanimate things, or for any grammatical element ex- 
cept the names of persons and superior beings. 

55. Note. — Which, like the word it, may stand for a word or a 
sentence. 

Example. — He insulted me, for which I challenged him. 

56. That may stand for any element which may be 
represented by who or which. 

57. As is a relative after such, same, used as an 
adjective pronoun, and many or much limited by as 
or so. 

Let such as hear take heed. 

(a.) As is a relative pronoun, subject of the sentence 
as hear, which it connects to its antecedent sitch. 

Examples. — As many as came were satisfied. 
I will give you as much as I have. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 49 

58. As used as a relative, may be the representative 
of both persons and things. 

59. Than after comparatives, is sometimes a relative 
pronoun. 

My griefs are greater than I can bear. 

(a.) Than is here a relative, object of the infinitive 
bear. 

Examples. — There was more jesting than befitted the occasion. 
He certainly had a greater salary than he earned. 

(b.) Than is a relative connecting than he earned to 
salary. 

COMPOUND RELATIVE PRONOUNS AS SUBJECT. 

60. A compound relative pronoun may be subject 
of a sentence. 

61. A compound relative pronoun is one that is 
simple in form but compound in office, including both 
the antecedent and the relative. 

62. The compound relative pronouns are ivhat, who- 
ever, whosoever, whatever, and whatsoever. 

What has been told is true. 

(a.) What is a pronoun including both the antece- 
dent and the relative. As antecedent, it is third per- 
son, singular, neuter, subject of the sentence, what is 
true. As relative, it is third person, singular, neuter, 
subject of the sentence, what has been told, which it 

3 



50 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

connects to itself as antecedent. What as relative, is 
therefore, a secondary connective. In effect, what is 
equivalent to that which ; it should, however, be 
parsed as a single word performing two offices. 

I loill take what you give, 

(b.) What, as antecedent, is the object of the indep. 
sentence, I will take what As relative, ivhat is object 
of the dep. sentence, what you give, which it connects 
to itself as antecedent. 

Note. — It will be seen that what, including both the antecedent and 
the relative, will always stand in two sentences, and that what, the 
relative, connects an adnom. sentence to what, the antecedent. 

63. What is sometimes a specifying adjective ; re- 
taining at the same time its force as a relative pro- 
noun, 

[See what beauties are displayed. 

(c.) What is a specifying adjective, limiting beauties. 
It is also a relative pronoun, subject of displayed. As 
a relative, it joins the dependent sentence to beauties. 

Note. — What is rarely used for the adverb partly. 

Example. — "What with extravagance and what with drunkenness I 
soon ruined myself." 

Whoever will perform the labor shall receive the reward. 

(d.) Whoever is a compound relative pronoun. As 
antecedent, it is third person, singular, and subject of 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 51 

the sentence, whoever shall receive the reward. As rela- 
tive, it is same person, number. &c, and is subject of 
the dep. adnom. sentence, whoever will perforin the la- 
bor< which it connects to itself as antecedent. 



At once came forth whatever creeps. 

(e.) Whatever is a compound relative pronoun. As 

antecedent, it is the subject of the indep. sentence, 
whatever came. As relative, it is subject of the dep. 

adnom. sentence, whatever creeps, which it connects to 

itself as antecedent. 

INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS AS SUBJECT. 

64. An interrogative pronoun may be subject of a 
sentence. 

65. Who, ivhich, or what, used to introduce a ques- 
tion or a nominal sentence, is an interrogative pro- 
noun. 

Note. — Interrogative pronoun is an unfortunate name for these 
words. The fact that a word is used to ask or to answer a question 
has in itself no grammatical importance, but inasmuch as these words 
are generally known by this name, it has seemed best to make no 
change. 

EXAMPLES OF INTERROGATIVE PRONOUNS. 
Who is he? 

(a.) Who is an interrogative pronoun, complement 
of the neuter verb is. 



52 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Which did he choose ? 
(b.) Which is an interrogative pronoun object of 

choose. 

Note. — (c.) Which or what under such circumstances seems to 
stand for a noun suppressed, and consequently might be called an 
interrogative adjective pronoun. Sometimes the noun is expressed, as, 
" What noise is that ? 

What is that? 

(d.) What is an interrogative pronoun, complement 
of the neuter verb is. 

I know who troubles you. 

(e.) Who is an interrogative pronoun {see definition), 
subject of troubles. 

Analysis :—(/.) SUBJECT—/; VERB— know; 
OBJECT — ivho troubles you. 

No adjuncts of the SUBJECT. 

No adjuncts of the VERB. 

The OBJECT is a sentence. 

Subject — who ; Verb, troubles ; Object — you : de- 
pendent, transitive, nominal sentence. 

Tell me what you have come for. 

Analysis :— (g.) SUBJECT — you (understood) : 
VERB— tell; OBJECT— (direct) zohat you have come 
for ; OBJECT — (indirect) me: indep. trans, sentence. 

The SUBJECT has no adjuncts. 

The VERB has no adjuncts. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 53 

The direct OBJECT is a sentence ; Subject — 
you; Verb — have come; clep. intrans. nominal sen- 
tence. No adjuncts of the Subject; adjuncts of 
the Verb— for what, adverbial phrase ; connective 
— -for; essential el. — what. 

66. An interrogative pronoun does not stand for, 
nor relate to, an antecedent, but usually for something 
in the mind of the speaker. When the speaker does 
not know what the answer to the question will be, it 
stands for something entirely indefinite. There is no 
grammatical necessity that the pronoun should stand 
for the word used in answer. 

67. It is sometimes difficult to decide whether what 
is an interrogative or a compound relative pronoun. 
It should be remembered that the compound relative 
pronoun what is analyzable and is in meaning usually 
equivalent to that which, while the interrogative pro- 
noun must go with its sentence. 

Let the learner give the true classification of what 
in each of the following sentences : 

Examples. — 1. I took what he gave. 

2. I asked what annoyed him. 

3. Do you know what you are about ? 

4. Give me what you have in your hand, 
o. He knows what I mean. 

6. Tell me what you think about it. 

7. Let us seize what arms we find. (See 63.) 

8. What obstacles are in your way? (See 65, c.) 



54 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS. 

68. An adjective pronoun may be subject of a 
sentence. 

69. An adjective used without its noun, and stand- 
ing for it, is called an adjective pronoun. 

" Some place their bliss in action, some in ease ; 
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these." 

(a.) The words some, those, and these are the repre- 
sentatives of some noun which is omitted, as, people, 
or men. When we supply this noun (which will not 
change the sense) they become specifying adjectives ; 
as, Some (men) place their bliss in action, &c. ; These 
(men) call it pleasure, &c. 

Note. — (b.) The words ones, others, and none stand for nouns, and, 
on account of an adjective force contained iD them, are called adjec- 
tive pronouns, although they cannot be used to limit nouns expressed. 

70. Some adjective pronouns vary in form to agree 
in number with the nouns they represent or limit; 
some are found only in the singular, others only in 
the plural number, but most of them, like nearly all 
the adjectives in our language, have the same form in 
both numbers. 



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55 



71. SYNOPSIS OF SOME ADJECTIVE PRONOUNS. 



Singular. 


Plural. 


This, 


these, 


That, 


those. 


Other, 


others. 


One, 


ones. 


Another, 


others. 



Singular 


PluraL 


Each, 




Either, 





Neither 





None (quantity), 


none (number), 





both. 





many. 




few. 




all. 


THIS and THAT. 





72. This represents an object near at hand in time 
or place, that an object which is distant. Accord- 
ingly, when two objects are mentioned, this and these 
represent the last named, that and those the first men- 
tioned. 

73. This and that are often the representatives of 
phrases or sentences. 

He called in the aid of the enemies of England : this was treason. 

(a.) This is subject of the verb vjas, and represents 
the indep. sentence, He called in aid, &c. 



They say that the music of Orpheus compelled the trees to follow him : 
this is incredible. 

(b.) This is subject of a sentence, and stands for 
the dep. nominal sentence, That the music of Orpheus 
compelled, &c. 



56 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 

74. Sometimes this stands for several preceding 

sentences. 

They are firmly persuaded that they are God's chosen people, and 
that all others being outcasts and Gentiles, are legitimate victims 
of robbery and theft. They believe that their prophet knows 
every thing present, past, and future. All this belongs to their 
creed. 

(a.) In this case, this is a pronoun, standing for the 
dep. nominal sentences introduced by that. 

75. Rarely this represents a subsequent sentence. 

Let no prince measure the danger of discontent by this : whether it 
be just or unjust. 

(a.) This is a pronoun representing the dep. sen- 
tence introduced by ivhether. 

76. This may represent a verb infinitive. 

God alone has power to forgive sin, and this he will do only when the 
sinner is truly penitent. 

(a.) This stands for to forgive. 

77. This, like it, may stand at the head of a sen- 
tence as subject, and act as a leader for the verbs re- 
presented, which are introduced subsequently. 

11 For this of him who would approach and eat, 
Was rigorously exacted to the full ; 
To tread and bruise beneath the foot the world 
Entire ; its pride, ambition, hopes, desires ; 
Its gold, and all its broidcred equipage ; 
To loose its loves and friendships from the heart, 
And cast them off; to shut the ear against 
Its praise ; and all its flatteries abhor." 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 57 

(a.) This is the local subject of the sentence this was 
exacted, and is the representative of the verbal nouns 
to tread, to bruise, to loose, to cast, to shut, and to abhor ; 
all of which are the true subjects of the sentence this 
was exacted. 

ONE and OTHER. 

78. One and other as adjective pronouns are often 
used in contrast. 

Example. — The two systems of philosophy were widely different in 
their results ; the one gave a soporific to the world 
which produced the long sleep of the dark ages ; the 
other a stimulant that broke its slumbers. 

79. One as an adjective pronoun usually stands for 
an indefinite noun. 

Example. — One cannot always see the wiser course. 

80. Other cannot generally be employed as a pro- 
noun, without a preceding adjective. 

Example. — "One took the other briskly by the hand." 

81. Each and other sometimes have a reciprocal 
relation. 

Example. — They hate each other cordially ', i. e., they cordially hate, 
each the other. 

82. Each is an adjective pronoun in apposition with 
they, and the distributive subject of the verb hate. 
Other is an adjective pronoun, object of the verb hate. 

3* 



58 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

83. One sometimes corresponds to another in a sim- 
ilar construction. 

Example. — See how the Christians love one another, 

EACH. 

84. Each is always used as a distributive, i. e. y it 
always stands for a plural noun, and takes each one 
of the number contained in this noun, separately. 

Example. — In the streets, each ivishing to make profit of his neigh- 
bor, merchants assembling spoke of trying times. 

Each represents merchants, taking each individual 
separately. 

ONES, OTHERS, and NONE. 

85. Although ones, others, and none, cannot be used 
as adjectives, they are nevertheless adjective pro- 
nouns. {See 69, note b.) 

86. From the compounding of this last word (none 
no-one), we would expect to find it only in the singu- 
lar number, but when it is the representative of indi- 
vidual objects, it is generally found in the plural. 

Example. — There are none among my acquaintances whom I can 
trust. 

None is a plural pronoun, subject of the verb are. 
If none were singular, the form of the sentence 
would be, there is none. 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 59 

87. None, whenever it stands for quantity and not 
for a number, is singular. 

Example. — We searched for water, but there was none to be found. 

BOTH. 

88. Both as an adjective pronoun, stands for nouns 
in the plural number, as, 

Both were wrong. 
EITHER. 

89. Either stands for two persons or things, taking 
them singly, i. e., one or the other. 

Example. — Call James or John ; either can help you. 
NEITHER. 

90. Neither (compounded of not either) is the negative 
of either. 

Examples. — Both promised ; but neither performed. 

Ask the doctor or lawyer ; neither can inform you. 

SUCH, MAN T Y, and SAME. 

91. Such, many, and same are used either in the 
singular or plural number. 

FORMER and LATTER. 

92. Former and latter are frequently placed in con- 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 60 

trast, former standing for the first of two preceding 
nouns or sentences and latter for the last. 

Example: — A false philosophy and a false religion exerted a powerful 
influence against scientific research. TJie former de- 
spised it as vulgar and low ; the latter forbade it as 
sacrilegious and sinful. 

Here former is an adjective pronoun, subject of de- 
spised and represents philosophy. Latter is an adjective 
pronoun, subject of forbade and represents religion. 

93. First, last, each, either, same, and both, are often 
the representatives of phrases or sentences. 

Examples. — You can pay the note now or wait till a more conve- 
'nient time ; either will suit me. 

Either is an adjective pronoun representing the two 
preceding sentences taken separately. 

He directed me to visit the market and also to attend to affairs at 
home ; I could not do both. 

94. The Numerals are all employed as pronouns 
and used as the subjects of sentences. 

Examples. — Six men engaged in the enterprise ; fiye were killed, 
but the sixth escaped. 

Five and sixth are adjective pronouns. 

95. Finally, all the qualifying adjectives may be 
employed as pronouns by placing before them the 
specifying adjective the and omitting the noun. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 61 

Example. — The wise and the good obeyed its precepts; but the 
wicked neglected and despised them. 



SENTENCE AS SUBJECT. 

96. The pronoun it is usually placed before the 
verb of the independent sentence as local subject 
when one or more dependent sentences stand as the 
true subject. 

Example. — It is a trite remark that time is money. 

97. The leader it, however, is sometimes omitted, 
and the dep. sentence is placed before the verb. 

Examples. — That time is money, is a trite remark. 

It is not probable that Bacon? s defence had much effect 
on his cotemporaries ; or, That Bacon's defence had 
much effect on his cotemporaries , is not probable. 

The sentence in italics is subject of the verb is. 

That the prisoner is guilty, is no longer a matter of doubt. 
That you have missed the road, is quite clear. 

Note. — In cases like these last, that performs but one office of a 
connective, viz., it introduces the sentence and makes it dependent. 

INDEPENDENT SENTENCE AS SUBJECT. 

98. An indep. sentence may itself, though rarely, 
be subject of a sentence. 

Example. — (Thou shalt have no other gods before me) belongs to 
the decalogue. 



02 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



CHAPTER IV. 

THE OBJECT. 

1. Any element which is required to complete the 
sense of a transitive verb, is called its Object. 

Examples. — The dogs pursue the fox. 
The farmer plows the field. 

2. In the usual order of a transitive sentence the 
object follows the verb ; sometimes, however, this 
order is reversed for the sake of euphony or vivacity. 

Examples. — Thy way thou canst not miss. 
Me mine requires. 

Virtue, not rolling suns, the mind matures. 
/ canH get out, said the starling. 

3. If the object be a relative pronoun, it will 
always stand before the verb. 

Example. — The person whom we appointed, is not present. 

4. The object may consist of a nominal word or a 
nominal sentence. 

THE WORD AS OBJECT. 

5. When the object of a trans, verb is a word it 
will be a noun or pronoun. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 63 

NOUN AS OBJECT. 

Examples. — The herald declared the will of the king. 

The diplomatist knew the importance of the measure. 
The conqueror sold the captives and the booty. 

Note. — For a more complete arrangement of nouns, see (Subject.) 

PRONOUNS AS OBJECT. 

6. The objective word may be & pronoun. 

PERSONAL PRONOUNS AS OBJECT. 

7. The personal pronouns, except it and you, change 
their form to indicate the objective relation. 



8. FORMS OF THE PERSONAL PRONOUN IN THE SUBJEC- 
TIVE AND OBJECTIVE RELATION. 

FIRST PERSON. 

Sing. Plural. 

Subject I We. 

Object Me Us. 

SECOND PERSON 

Sing. Plural. 

Subject Thou or you Ye or you. 

Object Thee or you Ye or you. 

THIRD PERSON. 

Sing. Plural. Sing. Plural. Sing. Plural. 

Subject He They She They It They. 

Object Him. ..Them Her. . . .Them It. . . .Them 

Examples. — Me ye have bereaved of my children. 
I know thee well. 
I'll pitch thee from the cliff. 
The bugle's notes aroused us from our slumbers. 
I shall see you no more. 
They pass him carelessly. 



64 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The colonel with his party attacked the robbers and 

drove them to the forest. 
They received her with feeble acclamations. 
He lost his trunk but afterwards found it at another 

station. 

9. Sometimes the pronoun it stands as local object 
introducing a verbal noun (infinitive) which is the 
true object. 

Examples. — We found it impossible to defend the fort. 

(a.) It, the local object of the verb found, is a pro- 
noun representing the verbal noun to defend, which is 
the true object of the same verb. 

My friends declared it an outrage to dismiss me from 
office. 

(b.) It, the local object of the verb declared, is a pro- 
noun standing for to dismiss, which is the true object 
of the same verb declared. 

The general thought it advisable to make a forced 

march. 
I found it toilsome to climb the cliff. 

' As for the pulling of them down, if affairs demand it, 
we will make the attempt. 

(c.) In this case, it stands for the participle pulling. 

IT (local object) standing for a dependent sentence. 

10. It is very often the local object of a trans, verb 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. G5 

or participle when it represents a dep. sentence which 
is the true object. 

1 shall have it to say that i have attained 'the utmost of my 

WISHES. 

(a.) It is local object of shall have, and represents 
the dep. sentence, that I have attained the utmost, &c, 
which is the true object of shall have. We may see 
this by asking the following question : What shall I 
have to say? Ans. — That I have attained, &^c. 

Examples. — I will proclaim it to the world, that thou art a coward. 

11. It, as local object of a verb, sometimes repre- 
sents an indep. sentence. 

For my part, I confess it with shame, i was always an incorri- 
gible LAGGARD. 

(a.) It here stands for the indep. sentence I was an 
incorrigible laggard. 

12. Sometimes it is employed as an expletive word 
without any special signification. 

Example. — She queens it well. 
13. INTENSIVE PERSONAL PRONOUNS AS OBJECT. 

Examples. — Do not trouble yourself. 
He has ruined himself. 

14. DOUBLE PERSONAL PRONOUN AS OBJECT. 

Examples. — You have thwarted my plans : I will thwart yours. 

You have failed in your designs : I have accomplished 
mine. 



66 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

RELATIVE PRONOUN AS OBJECT. 

15. Who is the only one of the relative pronouns 

that changes its- form to show the relation of subject 

and object. 

Subject — Who. 

Object — Whom. 

(a.) As has been before remarked, the relative pro- 
noun, whether subject or object, stands at the head of 
a sentence which it connects to its antecedent. 

/ know the man whom you have slandered. 

(a.) Analysis: — Whom is a relative pronoun, ob- 
ject of slandered — relating to man as its antecedent, 
to which it connects the sentence whom you have slan- 
dered. 

It is the same wagon that / saw yesterday. 

(b.) Analysis: — That is a relative pronoun, ob- 
ject of the dep. sentence that I saw, which it connects 
to its antecedent wagon. 

Examples. — The country which we crossed, was barren. 
He can take such as we have. 
Such as I have, give I unto you. 

16. COMPOUND RELATIVE PRONOUN AS OBJECT. 

The thief refused to divide wiiat he had stolen. 

(c.) Analysis: — Subject — thief; verb — refused; ob- 
ject — to divide: indep. trans, sentence. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 67 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Object of to divide — what (as antecedent.) 

Adjunct of what (antecedent) — what he had stolen. 

Connective — what (relative) ; subject — he ; verb — 
had stolen ; object — what (relative) ; dep. transitive 
adnom. sentence. 

Examples. — He spent what he earned. 

Will you pay what I demand ? 

Note. — Interrogative and adjective pronouns may also be objects 
of trans, verbs. (See Subject.) 

DOUBLE OBJECT. 

17. The object of a verb may be double. 
I. Direct and Indirect. 

The preceptor taught me grammar. 

(a.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— preceptor ; VERB— 
taught; DIRECT OBJECT— grammar; Indirect ob- 
ject — me : indep. trans, sentence. 

Examples. — Pay him a dollar. 

I will ask you one question. 

What did you give him ? 

Here is the money which I owe you. 

18. The dependent nominal sentence sometimes 
forms the direct object of a sentence, while a noun or 
pronoun is used as the indirect object. 

A hawk asked a little mouse that he would liberate him. 



68 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — hawk; verb — asked; ob- 
ject (direct)— that he would liberate; object (indirect) 
— mouse : indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — a — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

The direct object is a sentence. 

Subject — he; verb — would: dep. nom. intrans. sen- 
tence. 

No adjunct of the subject. 

Adjunct of the verb — the infinitive liberate ; object 
of liberate — him. 

Adjunct of the indirect object — a and little — adnom. 

words. 

Examples. — The general told his army that the enemy was in 
sight. 
They earnestly asked us who had brought the news. 
The peasants assured us that the road was good. 
The Secretary informed the council that his report 

WAS READY 

II. The double object may consist of a noun ok 

PRONOUN AND AN ADNOMINAL WORD. 
His manners rendered him odious. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — manners ; verb — render- 
ed ; object — him, with its adjunct, odious: indep. trans, 
sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — his — adnom. word. 

The verb has no adjuncts. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 69 

Adjunct of him — odious — adnom. word. 

Examples. — Exercise in the open air made the old man strong and 
healthy. 
My friends declared me mad. 

19. Frequently a noun or pronoun and a participle 
which is its adjunct, form the object of a sentence. 

We saw them lying in the shade. 

(a.) Analysis: Subject — We; verb — saw; object 
— "them lying" — consisting of the participle and the 
pronoun limited by it : indep. trans, sentence. 

No adjuncts of the subject 

No adjuncts of the verb. 

Adjunct of the participle lying — in shade — adverb, 
phrase. 

Adjunct of shade — the — adnom. word. 

Examples. — The laborer saw the sun rising. 

The guards heard them entering the outer gate. 

III. The double object may consist of a NOUN OR 

PRONOUN AND ITS ADJUNCT IN APPOSITION. 
They chose me captain. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — they ; verb — chose; ob- 
ject — me captain {captain being in apposition with me): 
indep. trans, sentence. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 



70 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

I 

The verb has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of ME — captain, a noun in apposition. 

Examples. — We call mm father. 

The count esteemed William his best friend. 
We named him Jacob. 
The stranger showed himself an adept. 
Jove made Mercury his messenger. 
The man whom they called wild 5am, was seen near the 
house. 

IV. The double object may consist of an infini- 
tive WITH ITS SUBJECT. 

They directed the guide to proceed. 

Analysis: — Subject — they; verb — directed; object 
—guide to proceed : indep. trans, sentence. 
The subject and verb have no adjuncts. 
Adjunct of guide — the — adnom. word. 

Examples. — The student desired me to excuse him. 

Great Britain forced the colonies to pay enormous 
taxes. 

Note. — After bid, dare, let, make, need, see, feel, hear, may, can, 
must, and frequently have and help, the particle to of the infinitive is 
not used. 

/ bade him follow. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — /; verb — bade; object 
— "him follow:" indep. trans, sentence. 

Examples. — I saw him climb the mountain. 
You heard him say it. 
u Let not despair nor fell revenge 
Be to my bosom known." 
He felt his courage fail. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 71 



DEPENDENT NOMINAL SENTENCE AS OBJECT. 

20. One or several dependent nominal sentences are 
often made the object in a transitive sentence. 

The spy pretended that he was a peddler. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — spy ; verb — pretended; 
object — that he was a peddler : indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

The object is a sentence. 

Connective — that; subject — he; verb — was; com- 
plement of the verb — peddler : dep. neuter, nom. sen- 
tence. 

Adjunct of peddler — a — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Examples. — The witness strongly insisted that he told the truth. 

The royalists believed that the country would be over* 

run by these reprobates. 
I know who it is. 

He asked them when the case would be decided. 
We now perceived that the enemy had struck their 

colors. 
We believe that the soul is immortal. 
And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto 

him, where art thou ? 
The Parliament did not know who their enemies were. 
No man knows when the day of his death will come. 



72 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



INDEPENDENT SENTENCE AS OBJECT. 

21. Frequently one or more independent sentences 
become the object of a transitive verb. This is the 
case when the objective sentence is not introduced by a 
secondary connective either expressed or implied. 

Heayen help thee ! cried the knight 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — knight; verb — cried ; ob- 
ject — "Heaven help thee: 11 indep. transitive sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

The object is a sentence. 

Subject — Heaven ; verb — help ; object — thee ; in- 
dep. trans, sentence. 

Examples. — " Wisdom, said God, retires, 

And counts it bravery to bear reproach, 
And shame, and lowly poverty :" 
" Wisdom, replies the world, struts forth to gaze, 
Treads the broad stage of life with clamorous feet" 

"And he shrieked out aloud, 
Clarence is come ! false, fleeting, perjured Clarence 
That stabbed me in the field by Tewhsbury ! 
Seize on him, furies I take him to your torments," 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 73 



CHAPTER V. 

THE COMPLEMENT OF THE NEUTER VERB. 

The complement of a neuter verb is an adjunct of 
the subject required to complete the sense of the verb. 

Examples. — The wind is strong. 
This seems strange. 
That boy is a hero. 

The complement of a neuter verb may be of two 
kinds : 

I. An element nominal in its nature and adnominal 
in its use. 

Examples. — My friend is a soldier. 

The lion is the king of beasts. 

(a.) In these cases the complement limits the sub- 
ject by a species of apposition. 

II. The complement may be a regular adnominal 
element. 

Examples. — My friend is brave. 
The lion \$ fearless. 

We will designate these kinds of complement res- 
pectively as Class I. and Class II. 
4 



74 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

UNDER CLASS I. 

The complement may be a word or a sentence. 
As a word it may be 
(a.) A noun. 

The Indians were faithful allies. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — Indians ; verb — were ; 
complement of the verb — allies — an adnominal word 
— adjunct of the subject. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the complement— -faithful — adnominal 
word. 

Examples. — The prize was a silver medal. 
Jeffrey was the judge. 
I am a Grezk. 
The boy became a man. 

(&.) A COLLECTIVE NOUN. 

Examples. — This is a vast army. 

The concourse became an infuriated mob. 

(c.) A VERBAL NOUN. 

I. An Infinitive. 

Examples. — Our plan was to break the wall. 

The trouble is to answer the question at all. 

II. A Participial noun. 

Examples. — Our amusement was skating. 

His best exercise was leaping the bar. 
Your fault is being too negligent. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 75 

The complement (under Class I.) may be a pro- 
noun. 

(a.) A PERSONAL PRONOUN. 

It is I. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — it ; verb — is , comple- 
ment of the verb — I: indep. neuter sentence. 

Examples. — Is that she ? 
You are he. 

(b.) An INTENSIVE PERSONAL PRONOUN. 

Examples. — It is James and myself. 

It was yourself who deceived me. 

(c.) A DOUBLE PERSONAL PRONOUN. 

Examples. — It was mine, now it is yours. 
The guilt is yours. 

(d.) A RELATIVE PRONOUN. 

Example. — If you are he who you say you are, I will report your 

case. 

Analysis:— SUBJECT— /; YEBB—will report; 
OBJECT— case. 

The SUBJECT has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the VERB — if you are he; CONNECTIVE 
— if; subject — you; verb — are; complement — he: 
dep. neut. adverbial sentence. 

The Subject and Verb have no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the Complement — who you say you 



76 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

are ; connective — who ; subject — you ; verb — say ; 
object — who you are : dep. trans, adnom. sentence. 

The subject and verb have no adjuncts. 

The object is a sentence : subject — you ; verb — are ; 
complement — who : dep. nom. sentence. 

Adjunct of the OBJECT — your — adnom. worpl. 

(e.) An INTERROGATIVE PRONOUN. 

Examples. — Who are they ? 
What am I? 

(/) An ADJECTIVE PRONOUN. 

Examples. — This is the sa?ne. 

It was the other who answered. 

The complement of a neuter verb (Class I.) may be 
a sentence. 

The fact is that he stole the money. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject— -fact; verb — is; comple- 
ment of the verb — that he stole the money : indep. 
neuter sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

The complement is a sentence : connective — that — 
sec; subject — he; verb — stole; object — money: dep. 
trans, adnom. sentence. 

No adjunct of the subject. 

No adjunct of the verb. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 77 

Adjunct of the object — the — adnom. word. 

Examples. — The proof of his cowardice is that he trembled when he 
heard the cannon, and ran before he was in danger. 

The greatest indication of peril was that the captain 
turned pale. 

The wonder is how he escaped. 

The strangest part of the story is that he should forget 
his friends. 

CLASS II. 

The complement of a neuter verb may be an ele- 
ment adnominal both in its nature and in its use. 
In this case it may be a word or a phrase. 
As a word, it may be 
(a.) An adjective. 

The way is long. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject— icay ; verb — is ; com- 
plement of the verb — long — an adnominal word, the 
adjunct of the subject. The sentence is indep. neuter. 

Examples. — The mountain is high. 

" The night was dark and fearful." 
The world is wide. 

(b.) A PARTICIPLE. 

His heart was broken. 

Analysis: — Subject — heart; verb — was; comple- 



78 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

merit of the verb — broken — adnom. word, adjunct of 
the subject. The sentence is indep. neuter. 
Adjunct of the subject — his — adnom. word. 

Examples. — The tower is fallen. 

The butcher is killing the ox. 

The ox is killed. 

His heart was broken. 

The boy was struck. 

Note. — Grammarians have usually distinguished this form of the 
neuter sentence as the passive form of the verb. 

(c.) The complement of the neuter verb (Class II.) 
may be a phrase. 

Examples. — The scout was in great danger. 
The boy was with us. 
He is at home. 

Analysis : — Subject — he ; verb — is / complement 
— at home ; indep. neuter sentence. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 

The verb has no adjuncts. 

The complement is a phrase : connective — at ; 
essential element — home. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 70 



CHAPTER VI. 

THE VERB. 

1. A Verb is a word used to assert, command, ques- 
tion, or assume. 

Examples. — The lion roars. 

God created man. 

The weather remains cold. 

(a.) Roars, created, and remains, are verbs because 
they express or affirm something of their subjects, 
lion, God, and iveather. 

2. Verbs are transitive, intransitive, or neuter. 

3. Verbs are transitive which require the addition 
of an object to make complete sense. 

Examples. — Industry overcomes obstacles. 
We desire happiness. 

4. Verbs which require no complement are called 
intransitive. 

Examples. — Birds fly. 
Boys run. 
God lives. 

5. The complement of a verb is any element re- 
quired to complete its meaning. 



80 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

6. A verb which requires a complement that limits 
its subject is called neuter. 

Examples. — James is industrious. 
The soldier is wounded. 
The city is in ruins. 
The story became exciting, 
He seems a scoundrel. 
The fort looks strong. 

(a.) Here, industrious, wounded, in ruins, exciting, 
scoundrel, and strong, limit the subjects respective^, 
and at the same time complete the sense of the verbs. 

(b.) Note. — The verb to be is the most common neuter verb, but 
look, seem, become, and others, are often used. 

PERSON AND NUMBER OF THE VERB. 

7. Verbs in many languages are varied in their form 
and termination to accord with the person and num- 
ber of their subjects. The English verb in its mod- 
ern use affords but one example of such change, viz., 
in the third person, singular number of the present 
tense. 

8. SYNOPSIS OP PERSON AND NUMBER OF THE ENGLISH 

YERB. 



J 4 \ Sec 
QQ ( Thi 



st Person I strike. 

Second Person You strike. 

Third Person He strikes. 



r ( First Person We strike. 

J§ -] Second Person You strike. 

°i / Third Person They strike. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



81 



• ( First Person I have struck. 

.fs < Second Person You have struck. 

^ ( Third Person He has struck. 

^ ( First Person We have struck. 

J -| Second Person You have struck. 

^i / Third Person They have struck. 



> ( First Person .1 struck. 

.|" < Second Person You struck. 

SQ ( Third Person He struck. 

^ ( First Person We struck. 

J •] Second Person .You struck. 

^ ( Third Person They struck. 



si 



( First Person I had struck. 



Second Person You had struck. 

Third Person. He had. struck. 

First Person We had struck. 

Second Person You had struck. 

Third Person They had struck. 



^ ( First Person I will strike. 

.§ -1 Second Person You will strike. 

°Q ( Third Person He will strike. 

^ C First Person We will strike. 

-~ •] Second Person. You will strike. 

^i / Third Person They will strike. 



£ 1 



^ ( First Person I will have struck. 

.§ < Second Person You will have struck. 

°Q ( Third Person He will have struck. 






First Person We will have struck. 

Second Person You will have struck. 

Third Person They will have struck. 



9. Thus it will be seen that the following law of 
Syntax, " A verb agrees with its subject in person 
and number," has no application to any tense but the 

present, except in the verb "be? In the verbs may, 

4* 



82 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

can, must, &c, it has no application whatever. In the 
present perfect tense there is an apparent variation ; 
it is, however, the same change mentioned above, 
since it occurs in the present tense of the auxiliary 
"have." 

MODE. 

10. Mode is a change in the form or termination 
of a verb to indicate the manner in which it expresses 
something of its subject. The English verb, with one 
or two insignificant exceptions, has no such changes 
and, consequently, cannot be said to have mode. 

11. Grammarians generally assign to the English 
verb five modes, none of which really exist. 

12. In order, however, to support this view, some 
have defined mode to be the " manner" instead of 
" a change of form to indicate manner." This defi- 
nition strictly carried out would subdivide several of 
our modes, add many others, and transfer the whole 
subject to the province of Logic. 

13. Some apparent exceptions to the statement 
above (10.) seem to require notice. 

(a.) The obsolescent form of the verb used in 
highly conditional sentences and commonly classed 
with the subjunctive mode, is undoubtedly an infini- 
tive used after an ellipsis of may, can, shall, should, 
&c. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 83 

Examples. — " Though he (should) slay me, yet will I trust in him." 
If he (shall) come to-morrow, I will pay him. 

(b.) The so-called potential mode is a collection of 
words completely analyzable. It is composed of a 
principal verb (may, can or must,) and an infinitive 
limiting this verb. This may be verified by an ana- 
lysis of the following : "I can and dare and must 
avenge him." Also by the fact that the only verb in 
our language (be) whose ordinary present differs from 
its infinitive, forms all these expressions by means of 
its infinitive, as, I can be, &c. It is also noticeable 
that all verbs which have no infinitive such as 
ought, can, must, &c, lack also these so-called poten- 
tial forms. 

You must consent. 

Analysis : — Subject — you ; Verb — must ; Infi- 
tive limiting MUST — consent: an indep. intrans. sen- 
tence. 

The adjunctive power of the infinitive is very evi- 
dent. Must implies obligation in a general way, 
while the infinitive consent limits this obligation to a 
special direction. 

The house can be removed. 

Analysis : — Subject — house ; Verb — can ; Infi- 



84 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 

nitive limiting can — be; Complement of be — re- 
moved : an indep. in trans, sentence. 

Note. — House is subject of be as well as of can. When the subject 
of an infinitive is the same as the subject of the principal verb, it is 
not repeated before the infinitive. Since the complement of the 
neuter verb limits its subject, it is evident that removed is an adjunct 
of house, 

(c.) The verb (be) forms an exception to the above 
statement (10.), as there are in its past tense certain 
traces of a subjunctive mode. They are, however, 
found only in the first and third persons singular. 

COMMON FORM. SUBJUNCTIVE FORM. 

I was If I ivere. 

You were If you were. 

He was If he ivere. 

Plural. Plural. 

We were If we were. 

You were If you were. 

They were If they were. 

The Infinitive will be discussed under Verbals. 



VERBALS. 

14. Verbals are largely employed in the formation 
of the tenses : on this account it seems proper to 
arrange and classify them before entering upon the 
discussion of tense. 

15. Verbals are words derived immediately from 
verbs, partaking of their nature, and performing the 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 85 

office of other parts of speech. They are of two 
kinds, infinitives and participles, 

INFINITIVES. 

16. Infinitives are so called because their subjects 
have no power to limit them as to person and num- 
ber. In other words, they do not change form to 
agree with their subjects. 

Examples. — I directed him to return. 
You directed me to return. 
I commanded you to return. 

(a.) The subject of the infinitive to return is, in the 
first example, him, in the second, me, and in the third, 
you ; but there is no variation in the form of the in- 
finitive to indicate these changes in the person of its 
subject. 

Note. — The subject of an infinitive, when it is a declinable word, 
commonly takes the objective form. 

17. Yerbs have two infinitives, viz., present and 
present perfect 

PRESENT. PRESENT PERF. 

Examples. — To strike To have struck. 

To run To have run. 

To send To have sent. 

18. The word to which often precedes the infinitive 
form of the verb is not always a necessary accompani- 



86 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

merit of it and has no grammatical importance. With 
a large majority of infinitives in standard English lit- 
erature it is not found nor can it be supplied. It is 
invariably absent when the infinitive follows may, can, 
must, might, could, would, should, shall, and will, and 
usually after bid, dare, let, make, need, see, feel, hear, 
have, help, and do. [See 10., (6.)] 

Examples. — "Did ye not hear it?" 

u No power can stay him in his silent course." 
" You do not understand me." 

We helped him build a house. 

You may speak for yourself. 

19. USES OF THE INFINITIVE. 

I. The Infinitive may be a nominal word. 
(a.) Subject in a sentence. 

Examples. — To hear him was difficult enough. 

To converse with him was a great pleasure. 

(b.) Object of a transitive verb. 

Examples. — I hope to find you. 

He desires to follow us. 

(c.) Complement of a neuter verb. 

Examples. — My desire is to receive his instructions. 
The difficulty is to obtain an audience. 

(d.) Essential element of a phrase. (Obsolete.) 
Example. — What came ye forth for to see ? 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 87 

II. The Infinitive may be an adnominal word. 

Examples. — Curiosity to see you overcame my fear. 

The desire to perform his whole duty characterized him. 
The time to depart is at sunrise. 

III. The Infinitive may be adverbial. 

Examples. — I came to speak to you. 
You must answer. 
His father rushed to meet him. 
We could answer the question. 
Must we be enemies ? 

/ attempted to speak. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — I; Verb — attempted; 
Object — to speak : indep. trans, sentence. 

Can you hear ? 

(6.) Analysis : — Subject— you ; Verb — can : in- 
dep. intrans. sentence. 

The Subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the Verb — the infinitive hear used 
without to. 

He can be discouraged. 

(c.) Analysis: — Subject — he; verb — can: an in- 
dep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the verb — he, an infinitive ; comple- 
ment of be (and adjunct of he) — discouraged, an ad« 
nom. word. 



88 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

20. Remarks. — It is doubtful whether in most cases the infinitive 
has any allusion whatever to time. It seems generally to convey the 
idea of action or state abstractly, the time being shown by the verb 
of the sentence in which it stands. Used after shall or wilif and 
often after can, may, or must, it forms a substitute for a future tense. 



PARTICIPLES. 

21. Verbals of the second class are called partici- 
ples. 

22. Participles are so called because while they re- 
tain the nature of the verbs from which they are 
derived, they partake of the nature of other parts 
of speech. 

23. Participles have no reference to time but only 
to state ; they simply show the action, being, or state 
of the verbs from which they are derived, &s finished 
or unfinished: they are, therefore, called perfect or im* 
perfect participles. Used in reference to the verb, state 
means completion or incompletion. 

24. Imperfect participles represent action or being 
in a state unfinished and continuing. 

Examples. — Striking. 
Moving. 
Reading. 
Being. 
Remaining. 



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25. Imperfect participles always terminate in ing. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 89 

26. Perfect participles represent action or being as 

finished. 

Examples. — Having struck. 
Having loved. 
Having been. 

27. All verbs, except a few defective ones, have 
these two participles, and transitive verbs have a 
third called passive. These are always perfect, but the 
name " passive " is sufficient to distinguish them. 

28. Participles are passive when the nouns which 
they limit, are represented as receiving the action. 

The robber, struck to the ground, was easily captured. 

(a.) Struck is a perfect participle because it repre- 
sents the action as finished: it is passive because the 
noun it limits is represented as receiving the action. 

Example. — Bozarris, slain in battle, left a deathless name. 

PARTICIPLES OP THE TRANSITIVE VERB LOVE. 

Imperfect Loving. 

Perfect Having loved. 

PASSIVE. 

Perfect. Loved. 

29. Intransitive verbs have two participles : the 
perfect and the imperfect. 

The snow, falling fast, nearly blinded us. 



90 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(a.) Falling is an imperfect participle from the in- 
transitive verb to fall. 

Having walked all day, he was very much fatigued. 

(b.) Raving walked is a perfect participle from the 
intransitive verb to walk. 

Examples. — The carrier pigeon, flying in circles, rises to an im- 
mense height. 
The bird, having escaped, flew into the forest. 



PARTICIPLES OF THE INTRANSITIVE VERB WALK. 
ACTIVE. 

Imperfect Walked. 

Perfect Having walked. 

30. Neuter verbs have two participles : the perfect 
and the imperfect. The neuter participle requires for 
its complement an adjunct of the noun it limits. 

We found him seeming more composed. 

(a.) Seeming is an imperfect neuter participle limit- 
ing him. Composed, the adjunct of him, is the comple- 
ment of seeming. 

Having been twice defeated, the army was nearly destroyed. 

(b.) Saving been is a perfect neuter participle limit- 
ing army, and defeated, the complement of having been, 
is a passive participle also limiting army. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISII SENTENCE. 91 

Examples. — Being weary, I lay down to rest. 

Having become roused, he would not be soothed. 

31. CLASSIFICATION OF PARTICIPLES, 

Intrans. Trans. Neut. 

Imperf. Flying. Killing Being. 

Per/. Having flown Having killed Having been 

Passive — Killed — 

32. Remarks. — It has already been stated that participles have no 
reference to time. It is important that this should be remembered. 
The participle shows action or being as complete or incomplete at the 
time recorded by the verb of the sentence. " Having spoken, I will take 
my seat " (to-morrow). The whole time of this sentence is future. 
This is shown by the verb will take, w T hile the participle having spo- 
ken indicates only that the act of speaking will be complete at the 
time referred to by the verb. "Having spoken, I took my seat" (yes- 
terday). Here the verb shows past time and the participle shows an 
action complete at that time. The time of the two sentences differs 
materially, yet the participle remains unchanged. The same may be 
said of the imperfect participle in the two following sentences. " I 
will be walking" and "I was walking" 

(a.) Let it be remembered that the participial noun is in all respects 
a verbal. When derived from a trans, verb it readily takes an object. 

Examples. — Holding the plow is hard work. 
Riding a horse is good exercise. 

(6.) When derived from a neuter verb, it takes a complement. 

Examples. — Being sick will not excuse him. 

Becoming a good man did not atone for past sins. 

(c.) The participial noun in its verb nature may also be limited by 
an adverbial adjunct. 

Examples. — Reading steadily injured his eyes. 

Speaking his words too rapidly was the fault of 
his elocution. 



92 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

TENSE. 
S3. Tense is a change in the form or termination 
of a verb to indicate the time or the time and state of 
the action, being, &c , which the verb expresses. 

34. Yerbs have three tenses corresponding to the 

three great divisions of time, viz. : the present, the 

past, and the future. 

Example. — Present I strike. 

Past I struck. 

Future I shall strike. 

35. In each time, action or being may be affirmed 
as to state in three ways, making in all nine tenses. 

PRESENT TIME. 

1st. As unfinished and continuing I am looking. 

2d. Without reference to its completion I look. 

3d. As finished I have looked. 

PAST TIME. 

1st. As unfinished or continuing. I was looking. 

2d. Without reference to its completion I looked. 

3d. As finished I had looked. 

FUTURE TIME. 

1st. As unfinished or continuing I shall be looking. 

2d. Without reference to its completion T shall look. 

3d. As finished I shall have looked. 

36. Since the unfinished or progressive tenses of 
the verb are formed by uniting a corresponding tense 
of the verb be with an imperfect participle, they are 
classed with neuter sentences and need not, therefore, 
appear in the regular conjugation of the tenses. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 93 

/ was looking. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — I; verb — was; comple- 
ment of the verb — looking — adjunct of the subject: 
an indep. neuter sentence. 

37. The regular arrangement of the tenses includes 
only two forms in each tense. 

PRESENT TIME. 

Present tense I look. 

Present tense perfect in state. I have looked. 

PAST TIME. 

Past tense I looked. 

Past tense perfect in state I had looked. 

FUTURE TIME. 

Future tense I shall look. 

Future tense perfect in state I shall have looked. 

38. The three tenses representing action or being 
in a finished state, are called perfect tenses, viz. — pre- 
sent perfect, past perfect, and future perfect 

Present perfect I have looked. 

Past perfect I had looked. 

Future perfect I shall have looked. 

39. The word looked, which is found in each perfect 
tense, is a perfect participle without the auxiliary 
having. 

40. In all the perfect tenses, finished action is shown 
by this perfect participle, while the variation of time is 
shown by the different tenses of the auxiliary verb 
have. 



94 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Present I have. 

Past , I had. 

Future , I shall have. 

41. The perf. participle of the verb look is looked. 
Placing this after the present tense of the verb have, 
we form the present perfect tense, viz., I have looked; 
in which the verb have shows the time and the per- 
fect participle looked, the state. The other two perfect 
tenses are formed in a similar manner. 

TIME. STATE. 

Present perfect .1 have looked. 

Past perfect I had looked. 

Future perfect I shall have looked. 

42. These tenses being composed of two elements 
or parts, are called compound tenses. 

43. The three tenses simply denoting time are cal- 
led simple tenses. 

FORMATION OF THE TENSES. 

44. The present tense is the simplest form of the 
verb. 

Examples.— I live We move They plow. 

45. In emphatic, interrogative, and negative sen- 
tenceSj the auxiliary verb do is placed before the infin- 
itive. 

Examples. — Perdition seize thee, but I do love thee. 
Bo you intend to stay ? 
This compliance, however, does not satisfy the people. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 95 

46. The present perfect tense is formed by placing 
have before the perfect participle. 

Examples. — I have lived They have plowed. 

47. The past tense is formed regularly by adding 
ed to the present. 

Examples. — I lived.. . . .We moved We plowed 

48. This tense is formed in emphatic, interrogative, 
and negative sentences by placing did, the past of do, 
before the infinitive. 

Examples. — He did tell me a lie They did not deny it. 

Bid the storm last all night ? 

49. The past perfect tense is formed by placing had 
before the perfect participle. 

Examples. — I had lived They had plowed. 

50. The future tense is formed by prefixing shall or 
will to the present infinitive. 

Examples. — We shall move They shall plow. 

51. When we wish simply to foretell or predict, shall 
is used in the first person and will in the second and 
third ; but when we wish to express determination or 
compulsion, will is used in the first person and shall in 
the second and third. 



96 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



DETERMINATION. 

PREDICTION. ' 

OR COMPULSION. 



( I shall work. ( I will work. 

Sing. -J You will work. Sing. -1 You shall work. 

( He will work. ( He shall work. 

( We shall work. ( We will work. 

Plur. i You will work. Plur. 1 You shall work. 

( They will work. ( They shall work. 

52. The future perfect tense is formed by prefixing 
shall or will to the perfect infinitive. (See 17.) 

Examples. — We shall have moved.. . . .They shall have plowed, 

DEFINITION OF THE TENSES. 

53. The present tense indicates present time. 

Examples. — I talk. 

We work. 

54. The present perfect tense usually indicates that 
the action or existence expressed by the verb is^/m- 
ished in present time. 

Examples. — I have talked. 

We have worked. 

55. The past tense indicates simply past time. 

Examples. — I talked. 

We worked. 

56. The past perfect tense indicates that the action 
or existence expressed by the verb was finished in 
past time. 

Examples. — I had talked. 

We had worked. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 97 

57. The future tense indicates future time. 

Examples. — I shall talk. 

You will work, 

58. The future perfect tense indicates that the ac- 
tion or existence expressed by the verb will be finished 
in future time. 

Examples. — I shall have talked. 

We shall have worked. 

59. Remarks. — It has already been shown that a full programme of 
tense demands nine changes in the form or termination of the verb. 
(See 35.) Of these the English verb has only two, viz., for the present 
and past tenses. The seven others are mere collections of words used 
in place of true tenses which are not found in the conjugation of our 
verb. Of these we have already cast out the unfinished or progres- 
sive tenses, because they are analyzable substitutes for tenses. 

60. The present perfect and the past perfect are substitutes, but are 
not analyzable, and consequently must be retained as tenses. 

61. But the futures may both be analyzed and taken out of the con- 
jugation, although it does not, at present, seem expedient to do so. 
They are constructed in every respect like the so-called potential forms 
already analyzed. [See 13., (6.)] 

62. Perhaps it should be repeated that these potentials have in 
many cases as good claims to be called future tenses as the expressions 
formed with shall and will. When we wish to show future time in 
reference to determination, we say, U I will go ;" if in reference to 
obligation, "I must go ;" if in reference to ability, " I can go," &c. 

VOICE. 

63. The English verb has no passive voice. In 
place of such a voice we have a neuter sentence, 
which can be completely analyzed. 

5 



98 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

64. The following are examples of expressions usu- 
ally classed as verbs in the passive voice. 

I am struck. 
He was injured. 
You are loved. 

Analysis : — S abject — I ; verb — am ; comple- 
ment — struck, an adjunct of I : indep. neut. sentence. 

65. Every tense, person, and number of the so- 
called passive voice may be analyzed in the same 
way. The construction is exactly the same as when 
an adjective follows the neuter verb and is analyzed 
similarly. 

Examples for Analysis : 

I am angry. 
He was hurt. 
Is she deranged ? 
Was he crazy ? 

66. SYNOPSIS OF THE REGULAR VERB TALK. 

Present I talk. 

Present perfect I have talked. 

Past I talked. 

Past perfect I had talked. 

Future I shall talk. 

Future perfect I shall have talked. 

CONJUGATION. 
67. Conjugation is a regular arrangement of the 
verb showing its various tenses, persons, and num- 
bers. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



99 



S3 



CONJUGATION OF THE REGULAR VERB TURN. 

" 1. I turn. ^ f ^ ( 1- I na(i turned. 

2. You turn. g .g •< 2. You had turned. 

3. He turns. § ^ f 3. He had turned. 



&i 3 



1. We turn. 

2. You turn. 
They turn. 



1. We had turned. 

2. You had turned. 

3. They had turned. 



h 


5?s 




?: 


2 

Ah 


eg 


H . 




fc 




M 


. 


02 


5; 


w 


§ 


« 




Ch 


L^ 








f. 




&a 




§ 



I have turned. 
You have turned. 
He has turned. 



1. We have turned. 

2. You have turned. 

3. They have turned. 

1. I turned. 

2. You turned. 
°Q ( 3. He turned. 

^ ( 1. We turned. 

J < 2. You turned. 

^ ( 3. They turned. 



°Q (3. 



I* 



I shall turn. 
You will turn. 
He will turn. 

We shall turn. 
You will turn. 
They will turn. 

I shall have turned. 
You will have turned. 
He will have turned. 

We shall have turned. 
You will have turned. 
Thev will have turned. 



68. CONJUGATION OF THE IRREGULAR VERB BE. 



I 5 

5 



? 1 



I am. 
You are. 
He is. 

We are. 
You are. 
They are. 




I had been. 
You had been. 
He had been. 

We had been. 
You had been. 
They had been. 



^ ( 1. I have been. 
.g •< 2. You have been. 
^ ( 3. He has been. 

r ( 1. We have been. 
*§ •] 2. You have been. 
^ (8. They have been. 



ft 



• ( 1. I shall be. 
? 1 2. You will be. 
^ 3. He will be. 



53 



1. We shall be. 

2. You will be. 

3. Thev will be. 



^ 3. 



fti 



I was. 
You were. 
He was. 

We were. 
You were. 
They were. 



^ ( 1. I shall have been. 
J •< 2. You will have been. 
°Q f 3. He will have been. 



^ ( We shall have been. 
^ 1 You will have been. 
^ ( They will have been. 



100 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

69. It has been remarked already that the verb be 
shows traces of mode. This should be remembered 
in the conjugation. In the present tense we find that, 
in common with other verbs, it has a conditional form 
composed of its infinitive with an ellipsis of shall, 
should, or some verb of this class. [See 13., (a.)] 

Examples. — If I (should) be. 

If you (should) be. 
If he (should) be. 

Plural. 
If we (should) be. 
If you (should) be. 
If they (should) be. 

70. In the past tense we find were (for a subjunctive 
form) instead of was in the first and third persons 
singular. [See 13., (c.)] 

71. This verb is the only one in the English lan- 
guage whose present tense and infinitive differ in 
form, the present being am, are, or is, and the infinitive 
(and imperative also) being be. 

72. In the present and past tenses, condition or un- 
certainty is often expressed by the subjunctive form 
without the sec. connective. In such sentences the auxil- 
iary of the perfect past tense and the principal verb in 
the simple tenses are placed before the subject. 

Example. — " Were he a coward, he would have trembled," 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 101 

(a.) This expression is the same in meaning as "If 
he were a coward, he would have trembled." 

(a.) CONDITION OK UNCERTAINTY CONDITION OR UNCERTAINTY 

WITH THE SEC. CONNECTIVE. WITHOUT THE SEC. CONNECTIVE. 

If I had been Had I been. 

If you had been Had you been. 

If he had been Had he been. 

If we had been Had we been. 

If you had been Had you been. 

If they had been Had they been. 

73. A regular verb is a verb that forms its past 
tense and perf. participle by adding ed to the present. 

Example. — Present — I turn; past — I turned; perf. participle — 
turned. 

74. Irregular verbs are those which do not form 
their past tense and perf. participle by adding ed to 
the present. 

Example. — Present — I draw; past — I drew; perf. participle — 
drawn. 

75. The principal parts of a verb are the present and 
the past tenses, and the perf. participle. 

76. The principal parts are so called because when 
these are known, the verb may be easily conjugated 
through all its modes and tenses by the general rules 
for their formation. 

(a.) Note. — The incorrect use of the tenses of the irregular verb, is 
a fruitful source of blunders. The perf. participle is often used for the 
past tense. 



102 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — " I done it." u They seen him " — instead of " I did it." 
" They saw him." 

(6.) Note. — The past tense is sometimes used instead of the perf. 
participle. 

Example. — " The men had went" 

77. The principal parts of an irregular verb are 
found by reference to the table which follows. Take, 
for example, the irregular verb draw. By reference 
to the table we find its present is " draw" its past 
" drew" its perf. participle drawn. 

From the infinitive, which has the same form as the 
present, we form the future tense by prefixing shall or 
will, and have the three simple tenses. 

Present I draw. 

Past I drew. 

Future I shall draw. 

We now proceed to form the compound tenses. 

(b.) The present perfect is formed b}' prefixing the 
present tense of the verb have to the perfect partici- 
ple : thus — I have drawn. 

(c.) The past perfect tense is formed by prefixing 
had (the past tense of the verb have), to the same 
participle : thus — I had drawn. 

(d.) The future perfect tense is formed by prefixing 
shall have (the future tense of have), to the same parti- 
ciple : thus — I shall have drawn. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 103 

(e.) We can now give a complete synopsis of the 
tenses of the verb draw. 

SIMPLE TENSES. COMPOUND TENSES. 

Present . .1 draw. Present perf. . . .1 have drawn. 

Past I drew. Past perf. I had drawn. 

Future .1 shall draw. Future perf. ... .1 shall have drawn. 

78. Arrangement of the tenses according to their 
order. 

Present I draw. 

Present perfect I have drawn. 

Past I drew. 

Past perfect I had drawn. 

Future I shall draw. 

Future perfect I shall have drawn. 

19. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OF THE VERB ABIDE. 

Principal Parts : — Present I abide. 

Past I abode. 

Perfect participle Abode. 

Present I abide. 

Present perfect I have abode. 

Past I abode. 

Past perfect I had abode. 

Future I shall abide. 

Future perfect , . . .1 shall have abode. 

80. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OF THE VERB COME. 

Principal Parts : — Present I come. 

Past I came. 

Perfect participle Come. 

Present I come. 

Present perfect I have come. 

Past I came. 



104 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Past perfect I had come. 

Future I shall come. 

Future perfect I shall have come. 

81. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OF THE VERB DO 

Principal Parts : — Present I do. 

Past I did. 

Perfect participle. Done. 

Present I do. 

Present perfect I have done. 

Past I did. 

Past perfect I had done. 

Future I shall do. 

Future perfect I shall have done. 

82. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OF THE VERB EAT. 

Principal Parts : — Present I eat. 

Past I ate. 

Perfect participle. Eaten. 

Present I eat. 

Present perfect I have eaten. 

Past I ate. 

Past perfect I had eaten. 

Future , I shall eat. 

Future perfect I shall have eaten. 

83. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OF THE VERB GIVE. 

Principal Parts : — Present. I give. 

Past I gave. 

Perfect participle, , Given. 

Present. I give. 

Present perfect I have given. 

Past I gave. 

Past perfect I had given. 

Future I shall give. 

Future perfect I shall have given. 



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84. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OP THE VERB GO. 

Principal Parts : — Present I go. 

Past .1 went. 

Perfect participle Gone. 

Present. I go. 

Present perfect.. I have gone. 

Past I went. 

Past perfect .1 had gone. 

Future I shall go. 

Future perfect I shall have gone. 

85. SYNOPSIS OF THE TENSES OF THE VERB SEE. 

Principal Parts : — Present .1 see. 

Past I saw. 

Perfect participle Seen. 

Present I see. 

Present perfect I have seen. 

Past I saw. 

Past perfect I had seen. 

Future I shall see. 

Future perfect I shall have seen. 

86. In the following list, the irregular verbs are 
classified according to their similarity of form in the 
past tense and perfect participle. 

87. Yerbs of the first class change the vowel of 
their final syllable in the present, into e to form the 
past tense, and add en to the present to form the per- 
fect participle. 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Fall fell fallen. 

Befall .befell befallen. 

5* 



106 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

88. Verbs of the second class terminate, in the past 
tense, in ew ) and their perfect participle ends in wn. 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Blow blew blown. 

Throw .threw thrown. 

Know... knew known. 

Grow grew .grown. 

Fly flew flown. 

Draw drew drawn. 

89. Verbs of the third class change the vowel or 
diphthong of the present into o to form the past tense 
and perfect participle, and their perfect participles end 
in en, 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Weave wove woven. 

Cleave clove cloven. 

Freeze froze frozen. 

Steal. stole stolen. 

Speak spoke spoken. 

Break broke broken. 

Choose chose chosen. 

Beget begot begotten. 

Tread trod trodden. 

Forget forgot forgotten. 

(a.) Similar verbs having oo in the past tense : 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Shake shook shaken. 

Take took taken. 

Forsake forsook forsaken. 

90. Verbs of the fourth class change the diphthong 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 107 

of the present into o to form the past tense and perf. 
participle, the participle ending in n. 

PRESENT. Pi ST. PEPvF. PART. 

Swear .swore sworn. 

Bear bore borne. 

Forbear forbore .forborne. 

Tear tore torn. 

Wear wore worn. 

91. Verbs of the fifth class change i of the present 
into o to form the past tense, the perf. participle 
retaining the i and ending in en. 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Rise rose risen. 

Arise arose arisen. 

Smite smote smitten. 

Ride rode ridden or rode. 

Stride strode stridden. 

Drive drove driven. 

Thrive throve thriven. 

Strive strove striven. 

Write wrote written. 

92. Verbs of the sixth class change i of the present 
into a in the past and into u in the perf. participle. 

PRESeNT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Begin , began begun. 

Sing sang sung. 

Spring sprang sprung. 

Ring rang rung. 

Shrink shrank shrunk. 

Sink sank sunk. 

Drink drank drunk. 

Swim swam swum. 



108 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

93. Verbs of the seventh class change the vowel of 
the present into u to form the past tense and perf, 
participle, which are alike. 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Dig dug , dug. 

Stick stuck stuck. 

Burst burst. burst. 

Stink stunk stunk. 

Slink slunk slunk. 

Sling slung slung. 

String, strung strung. 

Cling clung clung. 

Fling flung flung. 



Sting stung , 



Ring 

Swing swung swung. 

Spin spun spun. 

Hang, r* hung hung. 

94. Verbs of the eighth class have their past tense 
and perf. participles alike, and each of these parts 
contains the diphthong ou or au. 

PRESENT. past. perf. part. 

Find found .found. 

Bind bound bound. 

Grind ground ground. 

Wind wound wound. 

Fight fought fought. 

Buy bought bought. 

Seek sought sought. 

Teach taught taught. 

Catch caught caught. 

Bring ....1 brought brought. 

* Verbs marked k, have also a regular form. 



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109 



PRESENT. PAST. 

Beseech besought , 

Work, r wrought . 

Think thought . 



PERF. PART. 

. besought. 
. wrought. 



thought. 



95. Verbs of the ninth class have their past tenses 
and perf. participles alike, both ending in d. 



PRESENT. PAST. 

Bleed bled.. 

Breed bred. . 

Lead led . . . 

Shed shed. . 

Bead read . . 

Shred . shred . 

Hear heard . 

Speed sped. . 

Flee fled... 

Rid rid 

Hold held.. 

Clothe, r clad. . . 

Say said. . . 

Pay paid . » 

Lay laid . . . 

Have had.. . 

Sell sold .. 

Tell told... 

Spread spread 



PERF. PART. 

.bled, 
.bred, 
.led. 
.shed, 
.read, 
.shred, 
.heard, 
.sped, 
.fled, 
.rid. 
.held. 
, .clad, 
. said. 
. paid, 
.laid, 
.had. 
. sold, 
.told, 
.spread. 



Stand 
Shoe. 



stood stood. 

shod shod. 



96. Verbs of the tenth class have their past tenses 
and perf. participles alike, both ending in t. 



PRESENT. 

Bet... 

Set... 



PAST. 

bet,. 

set.. 



PERF. PART. 

.bet. 
.set. 



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ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Let let let. 

Meet met met. 

Beat beat beat or beaten. 

Bend bent .bent. 

Bite bit . bit or bitten. 

Build built built. 

Bereave, r bereft bereft. 

Cast cast cast. 

Cost cost cost. 

Creep crept crept. 



Sleep slept . . . 

Weep wept . . . 

Sweep swept . . 

Leap, r leapt. . . 

Keep kept . . . 

Deal dealt. . . 

Feel felt.... 

Dwell dwelt. , 

Smell smelt . . 

Kneel knelt . . 

Dream, r dreamt , 

Get got. . . . 

Gild, r gilt 

Gird, r girt. . . . 

Hit hit 

Sit sat 

Knit knit . . , 

Leave left 

Lend lent. . . , 

Send sent , . . 

Rend rent . . , 

Mean meant. . 



Light* lit 



Loose 
Put. . . 
Quit.. 
Shut.. 



,lost. 
put. 
quit 
.shut 



, slept. 

,wept. 

.swept. 

, leapt. 

.kept. 

.dealt. 

.felt. 

.dwelt. 

, smelt. 

.knelt. 

. dreamt. 

.got. 

.gilt. 

.girt. 

.hit. 

.sat. 

. knit. 

.left. 

. lent. 

. sent. 

. rent. 

.meant. 

.lit. 

. lost. 

.put. 

. quit. 

. shut. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. Ill 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Slit slit slit. 

Spit spit or spat spit. 

Split split split. 

Sweat sweat . , sweat. 

Thrust thrust thrust. 

Wet, r wet wet. 

97. Verbs of the eleventh class form their past 
tenses regularly and their perf. participles irregularly, 
the latter ending in n. 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Grave, r. graved graven. 

Shave, r shaved shaven. 

Hew hewed hewn. 

Lade laded. laden. 

Mow mowed mown, R. 

Rive rived riven. 

Saw sawed sawn, r. 

Shear sheared shorn. 

Show showed shown. 

Sow sowed sown. 

Strew strewed strown. 

Swell . . . , swelled swollen, r. 

98. Verbs of the twelfth class form their past tenses 
irregularly and their perf. participles regularly. 

PRESENT. PAST. PERF. PART. 

Crow crew crowed. 

Dare durst, r dared. 

DEFECTIVE VERBS. 

99. Defective verbs are those which are not found 
in all the principal parts. They are — 



112 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLLSH SENTENCE, 



PRESENT. PAST. PEKF. PART. 



Ought ..ought, 



Beware, 



quoth 
wist . , 



May might. , 

Can could . 

Shall should 

Will would. 

Must must . 



100. These verbs have no perfect participle and 
consequently no compound tenses. 

(a.) May, ivill, can, might, could, shall, should, would, 
and 7nust, are always followed by the infinitive with 
out the particle to. 

(b.) The tense of ought and must is determined by 
the tense of the infinitive which follows them. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 113 



CHAPTER VII. 

ADJUNCTS. 

1. An adjunct is any word, phrase, or sentence, 
joined to a word to limit or modify it. 

2. Adjuncts are of two kinds, adnominal and 
adverbial. 

3. An adjunct which limits a noun or pronoun, is 
called an adnominal adjunct 

4. An adjunct which limits a verb, adjective, partici- 
ple, or adverbial word, is called an adverbial adjunct 

ADNOMINAL ADJUNCTS. 

5. An adnominal adjunct consisting of a single 
word, is called an adnominal word. 

6. An adnominal adjunct consisting of a phrase, is 
called an adnominal phrase. 

7. An adnominal adjunct consisting of a sentence, 
is called an adnominal sentence. 

ADJUNCTS OF THE SUBJECT. — ADNOMINAL WORDS. 

8. The subject may be limited by adnominal words. 

Examples. — Industrious men succeed. 
Peter, turning, said. 
Seven warriors were slain. 
The house was overthrown. 



114 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

9. Frequently several adnominal words modify a 
single subject. 

Examples. — The splendid palace was destroyed. 
The good old man replied. 

10. An adnominal word which limits the subject, 
may be a noun possessive. 

Examples. — The GeneraVs horse fell under him. 

The people's candidate defeated himself. 
A buffalo's strength lies in his neck. 

(a.) Note. — The possessive form is derived from the old Saxon 
genitive (possessive) whose termination was is. To prevent the in- 
convenience of pronouncing an additional syllable, the i was dropt 
and the omission marked by an apostrophe ; thus, John's hat. In 
cases where the word ended in s, the entire termination was dropt 
and the omission marked by an apostrophe ; thus, boys' hat, instead 
of boyis hat. This is also true when the word ends in an (s) sound ; 



The minstrel's music filled the hall. 

(b.) MinstreVs is an adnominal word — a noun pos- 
sessive limiting music. 

Examples. — Freedom's stronghold is among rocks and mountains. 

The emperor's guard consisted of three hundred and 
twenty grenadiers. 

11. An adnominal word limiting the subject may 
be a noun in apposition. 

12. A noun annexed to another noun to explain or 
characterize it, is said to be in apposition with it. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 115 

Samuel, the prophet, anointed David. 

(a) Prophet is an adnominal word — a noun in appo- 
sition characterizing Samuel. 

Examples. — Pitt, the orator, addressed the people. 

Jonathan, the son of Saul, died with his father. 
Peter, the hermit, preached the first crusade. 

13. Proper names are often adnominal words used to 
limit the subject. 

Richard Cromwell defeated the royal forces. 

(a.) Richard is an adnominal word — a proper noun 
limiting Cromwell. 

Examples. — James Stuart succeeded to the crown of England. 
TTiomas Paine wrote the " Age of Reason." 
The Tremont House stands in Tremont street 

14. An adnominal word which limits the subject 
may be a common noun. 

Captain Kidd concealed his treasures. 

(a.) Captain is an adnominal word — a common 
noun used to limit Kidd. 

Examples. — Senator Hale opposed the resolution. 
King James abdicated his throne. 
General Bonaparte was beaten at Waterloo. 

15. An adnominal word which limits the subject, 
may be a personal pronoun possessive. 



116 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — His father died. 

Our hopes are blasted. 

My eye is dim. 

Your words are true. 

Our days are as the grass. 

Your words are friendly. 

Their trials proved blessings. 

His works remain. 

The tree dies and its leaves fall. 

16. An adnominal word which limits the subject, 
may be a personal pronoun in apposition. 

Examples. — My friend, he that assisted me, has returned home. 

Your sister, she who wrote the letter, forgot to mention 
you. 

17. An adnominal word which limits the subject, 
may be an intensive pronoun. 

18. The intensives are formed by prefixing the 
personal pronoun possessive of the first or second per- 
son, or the personal pronoun objective of third person, 
to the word self or selves. 

SING. PLURAL. 

First Person Myself Ourselves. 

Second Person Yourself. Yourselves. 

Himself. Themselves. 

Herself. Themselves. 

Itself Themselves. 

The king himself has followed her. 

(a.) Himself is an adnominal word — an intensive 
pronoun limiting king. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 117 

Examples. — I myself will attend to the affair. 
We ourselves are much to blame. 
You have yourself forfeited all claim to pity. 
The jurymen themselves were stung with remorse. 

19. The subject is sometimes contained in, and 
limited by, one of the double pronouns, mine, thine, 
his, hers, yours, theirs. 

20. These words are compound in office, represent- 
ing both the possessor and the thing possessed. 
Their forms determine the person and number of the 
pronoun possessive, while the number and person of 
the noun possessed must be determined by referring 
to it, as it will always be expressed in another part of 
the sentence. 

Your pupils are idle, mine are industrious. 

(a.) Mine is a double pronoun representing the 
possessor and the thing possessed. As a pronoun 
possessive limiting the subject, it is first person, 
singular number, and stands for my ; as subject of 
the sentence, it stands for pupils, and is a pronoun, 
third person, plural number. 

Examples. — Thine be the glory ; oars the endless bliss. 

My brother has arrived ; yours will be here soon. 
Your friends are many ; mine are few. 

21. An adnominal word which limits the subject 
may be a relative or interrogative pronoun possessive. 



118 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(a.) Note. — Whose is the common possessive of all the relative and 
interrogative pronouns. 

The man whose effort had failed, went away disheartened. 

(b.) Whose is an adnominal word — a relative pro- 
noun possessive, limiting effort. 

Wliose son are you? 

(c.) Whose is an adnominal word — an interrogative 
pronoun limiting son. 

Examples. — A mountain whose top was covered with snow, arose 
on our left. 
Whose house was burned ? 
Sancho, whose ire was aroused, replied. 
" Oh ! thou Eternal One, whose presence bright 
All space doth occupy." 

22. An adnominal word limiting the subject, may 
be an adjective. 

Strong giants lived in olden time. 

(a.) Strong is an adnominal word, an adjective, used 
to limit giants. 

Examples. — Five princes were present. 
This book is yours. 
The man must be mad. 
Great oaks grow there. 

23. Adjectives are divided into two classes ; viz., 
qualifying and specifying. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 119 

24. A qualifying adjective limits a noun by express- 
ing some quality existing in it 

Examples. — Good men are happy. 
Strong drink is raging. 



COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES. 

25. Comparison is a change of termination or form 
in adjectives, to express different degrees of quality. 

26. Qualifying adjectives have two degrees of 
comparison ; the comparative and the superlative. 

27. The simple form simply expresses a quality. 

Examples. — Strong giants. 
Good men. 
Mighty heroes. 

28. The comparative degree implies a comparison 
between two objects, and expresses a quality in a 
degree higher than the positive. 

Examples. — Stronger giants. 
Better men. 
Mightier heroes. 

29. The superlative degree implies a comparison 
between three or more objcts, and expresses quality 
in the highest degree. 

Examples. — Strongest giants. 
Best men. 
Mightiest heroes. 



120 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

30. The comparative degree of adjectives is regu- 
larly formed by adding er to the simple form. 

31. The superlative degree of adjectives is regu- 
larly formed by annexing est to the simple form. 

32. RULES OF ORTHOGRAPHY APPLICABLE TO THE 
COMPARISON OF CERTAIN ADJECTIVES. 

I. Final y preceded by a consonant changes into i 
before a suffix beginning with a vowel. 

Example. — Lovely, lovelier, loveliest 

II. Final silent e is dropped before a suffix begin- 
ning with a vowel. 

Example. — Noble, nobler, noblest. 

III. When a single consonant stands after a single 
vowel at the end of a monosyllable, or any word 
accented on the final syllable, it is doubled before a 
suffix commencing with a vowel. 

Example. — Hot, hotter, hottest. 

Monosyllables, and dissyllables whose terminations 
readily coalesce form their comparatives and superla- 
tives as shown above. Other qualifying adjectives 
are not compared, but the same effect is produced 
by prefixing more and most. 

Example. — Beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 121 

Examples of Adjectives. — 
Tall trees grow. 

A beautiful morning dawned upon us. 
Nobler men never lived. 
The tallest man in the regiment was Arthur. 
The most powerful influence was now at work. 
A more impudent scoundrel was never known. 
A terrible accident occurred. 
How many men have arrived ? 
What goods were stolen ? 
Seventeen men returned. 

33. A specifying adjective merely points put or 

specifies the noun which it limits. 

Examples. — Hie house. 
Six horses. 

34. All numeral adjectives are included in this class. 

35. Many specifying adjectives have a plural form, 
and agree in number with the nouns they limit. 

SINGULAR. PLURAL. 

This these. 

That those. 

{a.) Note. — Many of the specifying adjectives are used as adjective 
pronouns. 

Examples. — This is excellent and warms the heart. 
That is improbable. 

36. An adnominal word limiting the subject may 
be a participle : 

37. First ; an imperfect participle, transitive or intran- 
sitive, as : — 

Breaking into the low countries, the Highlanders committed great 

depredations. 



122 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — Highlanders ; verb — 
committed ; object — depredations ; indep. trans, sen- 
tence. 

Adjuncts of the subject — the and breaking — adnom. 
words. 

Adjunct of breaking — into countries — adv. phrase ; 
connective into — sec. connective ; essential element — 
countries ; adjuncts of countries — the and low — adnom. 
words. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the object — great— adnom. word. 

Examples. — Sailing westward Columbus discovered the islands. 
He fell fighting like a tiger. 
Night descending covered the earth with gloom. 
Walking over the field, I found much to recall the 
conflict to my mind. 

38. Secondly ; an imperfect participle neuter, as : — 

Being lazy, he desired no employment, 

{a) Analysis: — Subject — he; verb — desired; ob- 
ject — employment; indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — being — adnom. word — an 
imperfect neuter participle. 

Complement of being — lazy — adnom. word, and 
farther adjunct of the subject. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the object — no — adnom. word. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 12o 

39. The neuter participle, like the neuter verb, is 
followed by some element which is called its comple- 
ment The same word which the neuter participle 
limits, is also limited by this complement. 

Examples. — Being weary, he fell asleep. 

Seeming uncalled for, it attracted no notice. 
Being interested in the subject, he continued his in- 
vestigations. 

40. Thirdly ; a perfect participle transitive or in- 
transitive, as : — 

Having killed the guards, the prisoner escaped. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — prisoner ; verb — escaped; 
indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — having hilled — adnom. 
word — a perfect participle. 

Object of having hilled — guards. 

Adjunct of guards — the — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Examples. — Having partaken of our hospitality, the strangers de- 
parted. 
We awoke, having slept soundly all night. 
Having seen the operation, I can speak with certainty. 

41. Fourthly ; a perfect participle neuter } as :- — 
Having been interrupted, the speaker sat down. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject— speaker; verb — sat; in- 
dep. intrans. sentence. 



124 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Adjunct of the subject — having been — adnom. 
word — a perfect participle neuter. 

Complement of having been — interrupted — adnom. 
word — an adjunct of the subject. 

Farther adjunct of speaker — the — adnom. word. 

Adjunct of the verb — down — adverb, word. 

Examples. — Having been once overreached, we were exceedingly wary; 
Having become mad, he was confined in the asylum. 

42. Fifthly ; a participle passive, as : — 

The king, dressed in royal robes, appeared. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — king; verb — appeared; 
indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — dressed — adnom. 
word — a perfect participle passive. 

Adjunct of dressed — in robes — adverb, phrase; 
connective — in — sec. ; essential element — robes. 

Adjunct of robes — royal — adnom. word. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Examples. — Mingled with the multitude, were seen several nobles. 
The left wing advanced, supported by the cavalry. 
The patience of the people, tried too often, gave way. 
Exhausted by hunger and long marches, the little band 

fell an easy prey to overpowering numbers. 
Being interested, he did not decide fairly. 

(b.) Note. — The participle neuter and its complement being distinct 
elements, should always be parsed separately. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 125 

ADNOMINAL PHRASES. 

43. The subject may be limited by an adnominal 
phrase. 

4:4:. A phrase usually consists of a noun or pronoun, 
or some element used substantively, preceded by a 
secondary connective. 

45. This element is called the essential element of the 
phrase. 

46. The subject may be limited by an adnominal 
phrase whose essential element is a noun. 

The morals of the crusaders corrupted the heathen. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — morals; verb — corrupt- 
ed] object — heathen; indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — of crusaders — 
adnom. phrase ; connective — of- — sec. ; essential ele- 
m e n t — crusaders . 

Adjunct of crusaders — the — adnom. word. 

No adj unct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the object — the — adnom. word. 

47. The subject may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a participial noun. 

His exertions in wrestling had exhausted him. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — exertions ; verb — had 
exhausted; object — him ; indep. trans, sentence. 



126 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Adjunct of the subject — his — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — in wrestling — 
adnom. phrase — connected by in — sec. connective. 

Essential element of the phrase — wrestling — a parti- 
cipial noun. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

No adjunct of the object. 

Examples. — Weariness from marching bore heavily upon us. 
The delay in escaping was disastrous. 
The possibility of escaping seemed dubious. 

(b.) Note. — When the essential element of a phrase is a transitive 
participle, it will, like a transitive verb, be followed by an object. 
The adjuncts of the participle may be either adnominal or adverbial. 

The necessity for guarding the frontier became daily more apparent. 

(c.) Analysis: — Subject — necessity; verb — became; 
complement — apparent — indep. neuter sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject— for guarding — ad- 
nom. phrase. 

Connective of the phrase—; for — sec. connective. 

Essential element of phrase — guarding — a transitive 
participial noun. 

Object of the participle— -frontier. 

Adjunct of frontier — the — adnom. word. 

Adjunct of the complement — more — adnom. word. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 127 

Examples. — The good effect of encouraging art is obvious to all. 
The habit of wasting time clings to us. 

The necessity of being prudent teas quite evident 

48. Note. — The expression "being prudent," corresponds to the 
predicate of the neuter sentence " he is prudent." The neut. verb is 
is changed to the imp. neut. participle being, and the fact which the 
sentence asserts is here merely assumed. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — necessity ; verb — was ; 
complement — evident; indep. neut. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — of being — adnom. 
phrase, which is followed by the complement — pru- 
dent. 

Connective — of — sec. ; essential element — being. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the complement — quite ; adv. word. 

The prospect of being a prisoner, discouraged me. 

(b.) Analysis: — Subject — prospect; verb — discour- 
aged; object — me; indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the— adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — of being — adnom. 
phrase. 

Connective — of— sec. ; essential element — being — 
which is followed by its complement — prisoner. 



128 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Adjunct of prisoner — a — adnom. word. 
No adjunct of the verb. 
No adjunct of the object. 

Our joy at being released, was great. 

(c.) In this case the complement of the imp. neut. 
participle is the perf. pass, participle released. 

The fact of his haying been convicted of theft, was notorious. 

(d.) Analysis: — Subject— -fact; verb — was; com- 
plement — notorious ; indep. neuter sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — of having been — 
adnom. phrase ; connective — of— sec. ; essential ele- 
ment — having been, which has for its complement the 
perf. passive participle convicted. 

Adjunct of having been — his — adnominal word. 

Adjunct of convicted — of theft — adverb, phrase. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

No adjunct of the complement of the verb. 

Examples. — The habit of being intoxicated had grown upon him. 
The folly of seeming what we are not, is often proved. 
The possibility of becoming a drunkard ought to warn 
every one who tampers with the cup. 

49. The subject may be limited by a verbal noun, 
a verb infinitive. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 129 

The desire to drink raged within him, 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — desire ; verb — raged ; 
indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — to drink — verbal 
noun, consisting of a verb infinitive. 

Adjunct of the verb — within him — adverb, phrase. 

Examples. — His intention to strangle i he prisoners, was put in execu- 
tion. 
A desire to excel spurred him on. 

A determination to succeed in all that he undertook, cha- 
racterized him. 
Motives to act uprightly are constantly before us. 

(6.) Note. — This expression has been usually classed as a phrase ; 
hence its appearance among phrases ; but, since to in these cases, 
has no signification of its own, and no connecting power, it is thought 
best to regard the expression as a single element — a verbal noun in 
apposition with the noun limited. 

Power to overcome difficulties lies in an invincible will. 

(c.) Analysis: — Subject — power; verb — lies ; in- 
dep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — to overcome — verbal noun, 
a verb infinitive. 

Object of to overcome — difficulties. 

Adjunct of the verb — in will — adverb, phrase. 

Connective — in — sec; essential element — will. 

Adjuncts of will — an and invincible — adnom. 

words. 

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130 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(d.) Note. — When the infinitive is transitive, it requires an object. 

Examples. — His effort to effect a reconciliation failed. 

The ability to speak French correctly, is not easily ac- 
quired. 

His desire to be a king was gratified. 

(e.) Analysis: — Subject — desire; verb — was; com- 
plement — gratified. 

Adjunct of the subject — his — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — to be — -verbal noun 
in apposition, a neuter infinitive. 

Complement of the neuter infinitive — king. 

Adjunct of king — a — adnom. word. 

Example. — His determination to be foremost in every enterprise, was 
manifest. 

50. The subject may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a pronoun. 

My letter to him will explain my conduct. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — letter ; verb — will ex- 
plain ; object— conduct ; indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — my — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — to him — adnom. 
phrase ; connective — to — sec. ; essential element — 
him. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the object — my — adnom. word. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 131 

(b.) Note. — The personal pronouns and the relative pronoun ivho, 
when they become the essential elements of a phrase, take the 
objective form ; thus — with me, of thee, by him, for whom, with them, 
to her. 

Examples. — My love for thee was wonderful. 

The search for him w r as unsuccessful. 
My stay with thee shall be short. 

The embassador's business with them was well known. 
A message from her is on the table. 
The monastery, the road to which was not easily found, 
stood in the grove. 



ADNOMINAL SENTENCES. 

51. The subject may be limited by a dependent 
adnominal sentence. 

An adjunct which limits a noun, is adnominal. 

(a.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— adjunct ; VERB- 
IS ; COMPLEMENT— adnominal 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — an — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — which limits 
noun — dep. trans, adnom. sentence ; connective — 
which — sec. ; SUBJECT — which ; VERB — limits ; OBJECT 
■ — noun. 

Adjunct of the object — a — adnominal word. 

No adjunct of the VERB. 

No adjunct of the COMPLEMENT. 

(b.) Note. — In the analysis of this and the following examples, the 
principal parts of the indep. sentence are printed in large capitals, 



132 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

while the same parts of the dep. sentences are printed in smaller type. 
"When, in any part of the analysis, the subject or any principal part of 
either sentence is mentioned, the same type is used. 

A comet which was heretofore unknown, has made its appearance. 

(c.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— come*; YJSEB—has 
made ; OBJECT — appearance j indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT— a— adnom. word.^ 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — which was 
unknown — dep. neut. adnom. sentence ; connective — 
which ; subject — which ; VERB— was ; COMPLEMENT — 
unknown. 

Adjunct of unknown — heretofore — adverb, word. 

The VERB has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the OBJECT — its — adnominal word. 

Such philosophers as investigated the subject, were satisfied. 

(d.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— philosophers; VERB 
— were; COMPLEMENT— satisfied. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — such — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — as investigated 
subject — dep. trans, adnom. sentence ; connective — 
as; SUBJECT — as; VERB — investigated; OBJECT — sub- 
ject 

Adjunct of the object — the — adnom. word. 

As many as heard, believed. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 133 

(e.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— many ; VERB — be- 
lieved; indep. sentence. {Many here is an adjective 
pronoun.) 

Adjunct of many (as an adjective) — as — adverb, 
word. 

Adjunct of many (as a pronoun) — as heard — dep 
adnom. sen.; connective — as — sec; subject — as; 
VERB — heard. 

The VERB has no adjuncts. 

Examples. — As much as I have, I will give to you. 

Such instances of fidelity as I have novj to record, are few. 

As much plunder as the Indians had stolen, was brought back by the 

whites. 

As noble men as the world ever saw, pledged themselves to the cause. 

(/.) Note. — In examples like the above, when as follows a qualify- 
ing adjective which is itself preceded by as or so, the ellipsis is easily 
supplied. In the example referred to, we may say as noble men as 
those are whom the world ever saiv, pledged, &c., dec. 

(g.) The candidate whom we elected, gained a large majority 
of votes. 

(h.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— candidate ; VERB— 
gained ; OBJECT — majority ; indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT— ^e—adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — whom we 
elected — dep. trans, adnominal sentence; connective 
— whom — see.; subject — we; verb — elected; object 
— whom. 



134 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The VEKB has no adjuncts. 

Adjuncts of the OBJECT — a — and large — adnom. 
words. 

Farther adjunct of the OBJECT — of votes — adnom. 
phrase. 

" Examples. — The power which brings a pin to the ground, holds the 
earth in its orbit. 
The event which I have mentioned, transpired long ago. 
The pledge that this sot had made, was soon violated. 
This accession which was heralded as a godsend to the 
army, was the true cause of its defeat. 

52. The connective than, by ellipsis of an element, 
is sometimes used as a relative and connective of an 
adnominal sentence. 

A larger sum than my father could afford, ivas expended on my 

education. 

(a.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— sum; VERB— was; 
COMPLEMENT — expended ; indep. neut. sentence. 

Adjuncts of the SUBJECT — a and larger — adnom. 
words. 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT as limited by 
larger — than ray father could afford — dependent adnomi- 
nal sentence ; connective — than ; subject— father ; 

VERB — could ; INFINITIVE AFTER THE VERB — afford. 

Adjunct of father — my — adnom. word. 
Object of the infinitive afford — than. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 135 

Examples. — More slaves than were needed, were employed. 

A broader prairie than we had before seen, now stretched 
out before us. 

More than was sufficient for our necessities, was con- 
tributed. 

53. While the relative pronoun is the connective 
of an adnom. sentence, it is also, in many cases, the 
essential element of a phrase which limits some other 
word. 



Fame, of which he knew the emptiness, teas 

(a.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— fame; VERB— was; 
COMPLEMENT — despised; indep. neut. sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT— of which he knew 
emptiness — dep. adnom. sentence; connective — 
which ; subject — he ; verb — knew ; object — empti- 
ness. 

No adjunct of the subject. 

The verb has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the object — of which — adnom. phrase. 

The VERB has no adjuncts. 

The COMPLEMENT has no adjuncts. 

Socrates, the life of whom proyed his uprightness, died by poison. 

(b.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— Socrates ; VERB— 
died ; indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — life of whom proved 
his uprightness — dep. trans, adnom. sentence ; CON- 



136 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

nective — whom; subject — life; verb — proved; OB- 
JE CT — up rigli tness. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — the — adnom, word. 

Farther adjunct of the subject — of whom — adnom. 
phrase ; connective — of— sec. ; essential element 
— whom. 

No adjunct of the verb. 

Adjunct of the object — his — adnom. word. 

Adjunct of the VERB — by poison — adverb, phrase; 
connective — by — sec; essential element — poi- 
son. 

(c.) Thus whom not only connects the dep. sentence 
to Socrates, but is also the essential element of a phrase 
limiting life. 

The only man that i was acquainted with, was absent. 

(d.) In this case, that connects the sentence that I 
was acquainted with, to man, and is also the essential 
element of an adverb, phrase connected by with to 
acquainted. 

The difficulties under which he labored, were countless. 

(e.) In this sentence, which connects he labored to 
difficulties, and the phrase under which limits labored. 

54. The relative pronoun possessive limits a noun 
as an adnom. word, and as a connective joins the 
sentence which it introduces, to its antecedent. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 137 

The man whose life is correct, is respected. 

(a.) Analysis :— SUB JECT— man ; VERB— is ; 
COMPLEMENT — respected ; indep. neut. sentence. 
Adjunct of the SUBJECT — the — adnom. word. 
Farther adjunct of SUBJECT — whose life is correct ; 

CONNECTIVE — whose ; SUBJECT — life; VERB — is; COM- 
PLEMENT — correct ; dep. neut. adnom. sentence. 
Adjunct of subject — whose — adnom. word. 

Examples. — The courtier whose opinion was asked, assented. 

The king whose wound at first seemed fatal, recovered. 

A lake ivhose surface glistened like silver, lav at the base 
of the hill. 

It was a doctrine whose acceptance depended on the igno- 
rance of the masses. 

55. The compound relative pronoun includes both 
the antecedent arid the relative. 

56. The relative part, as a sec. connective, joins a 
sentence to the antecedent part. 

What you say, is true. 

(a.) Analysis : — SUBJECT — what (antecedent) ; 
VERB— is ; COMPLEMENT— true ; indep. neut. 
sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — what you say — dep. 
trans, adnom. sentence ; connective — what (rela- 
tive) ; subject— yo u ; verb — say ; object — what 
(relative.) 



138 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The VERB and COMPLEMENT have no adjuncts. 
(b.) In cases similar to the above, what is equiva- 
lent in office to that which. 

(c.) Note. — When the word ever is annexed to iohat> the analysis is 
the same. 

Examples. — What you did, was wrong. 

What I said, was not understood. 

Much OF WHAT HE COLLECTED, Was worthless. 

(d.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— much; VERB— was; 

COMPLEMENT — ivorthless ; indep. neut. sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — of what — adnorn. 
phrase ; connective — of—seo. ; essential element 
— what (antecedent.) 

Adjunct of what (antecedent) — what he collected; 
connective — what (relative); subject — he; verb — 
collected; object — what (relative) ; dep. trans, adnom. 
sentence. 



57. SENTENCES CONNECTED TO THE SUBJECT BY OTHER 
SEC. CONNECTIVES. 

Tlie day when i expected to go, arrived. 

(a.) Analysis : — SUBJECT — day ; VERB— ar- 
rived; indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — the — adnom. word. 
Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — when I expected 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 139 

to go ; connective — when ; subject — /; verb — 
expected; object — to go ; dep. trans, adnom. sentence. 

" Knowest thou the land vjhere the lemon trees bloom, 
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, 
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, 
And the groves are of laurel, and myrtle, and rose f* 

(6.) Note. — Here the four adnominal sentences, viz., trees bloom, 
orange glows, wind blows, and groves are of laurel, <£c, are connected 
to land by the sec. adnom. connective where. An ellipsis of this con- 
nective occurs with the fourth sentence. These sentences qualify the 
object and not the subject of a sentence, and are placed here merely as 
examples of adnom. sentences connected by words which are not 
relative pronouns. 

Examples. — Time was when the earth was without form. 

The reason why he refused my request, did not appear. 
The question how combustion takes place, was discussed 

at length. 
A fear lest he should fall in battle, pursued him. 
The hope we shall be saved, still animated us. 

58. The subject may also be limited by a sentence 
in apposition. 

TJie acknowledgment that he was wrong, satisfied me. 

(a.) Analysis : — SUBJECT — acknowledgment ; 
VERB — satisfied ; OBJECT — me ; indep. trans, sen- 
tence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — the — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — that he was 
wrong — dep. ueut. adnom. sentence ; connective — 



140 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

that — sec. ; subject — he ; verb — was ; complement — 
wrong. 

Examples. — The belief that the soul is immortal, is almost universal. 
A report that the imperial army had surrendered, reached 
Paris. 

59. The subject may be limited by an indep. sen- 
tence in apposition. 

The old adage, " Honesty is the best policy," contains truth. 

(a.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— adage; VERB— con- 
tains ; OBJECT — truth ; indep. trans, sentence. 

Adjuncts of the SUBJECT — the and old — adnom. 
words. 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — Honesty is the 
best policy ; SUBJECT — honesty ; VERB — is ; COMPLE- 
MENT — policy ; indep. neut. sentence. 

Adjunct of the complement — best — adnom. word. 

Examples. — Pope's sentiment, " A little learning is a dangerous 
thing," is false. 
The question, " Is there a Bourbon among us ?" has 
excited great interest. 



ADVERBIAL ADJUNCTS. 

60. Having considered adjuncts of the subject of a 
sentence, we now proceed to notice those elements 
which may limit a verb. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 141 

61. All adjuncts which limit verbs are called ad- 
verbial. 

ADVERBIAL WORDS. 

62. Adverbial words are called adverbs. 

Of adverbial words there are various classes, the 
principal of which are : — Adverbs of time, of manner, 
of place, of negation, and affirmation. 

Adverbs of Time : — 

Examples. — He will return soon. 
Repent to-day. 
I shall visit him to-morrow. 

Adverbs of Manner : — 

Examples. — The prisoner slept soundly. 
Live soberly. 

Webster rose calmly to reply. 
The boys write indifferently. 
He blundered egregiously. 
The jury greatly erred. 

Adverbs of Place: — 

Examples. — We shall not always remain here. 
Brave men had perished there. 
I can live anywhere. 
Look yonder. 

Adverbs of Affirmation, Emphasis, and Negation: — 

Examples. — He dares not touch a hair of Cataline. 
The witness certainly spoke truth. 
The day of reckoning will surely come. 
The post-boy undoubtedly died of fatigue. 



142 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Note. — It is impossible to present a complete list of adverbial 
words. The foregoing are merely examples of the most common 
ones. 

COMPARISON. 

63. Some adverbs are compared. 
Monosyllables are usually compared by adding er 

for the comparative and est for the superlative degree. 

Examples. — Soon, sooner, soonest. 
Often, oftener, oftenest. 
Fast, faster, fastest. 

(a.) Fast y though regularly an adjective, is often an adverb. 
ADVERBIAL PHRASES. 

64. The verb may be limited by one or more 
adverbial phrases. 

First, by a phrase whose essential element is a noun. 

Winds moan over the hill. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — winds ; verb — moan ; 
ind. intrans. sentence. 

Subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the verb — over hill — adverb, phrase. 

Connective — over — sec. conn. ; essential element — 
hill, 

Adjunct of hill — the — adnom. word. 

He did not reveal under whose patronage he had acted. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 143 

(b.) Analysis : — SUBJECT — he ; VEEB — did 
reveal; OBJECT — under vjhose patronage he had acted ; 
ind. trans, sentence. 

The SUBJECT has no adjunct. 

Adjunct of DID KEVEAL— no*— adverb, word. 

The OBJECT, being a sentence, we may analyze it. 

Connective — ivhose ; subject — he ; verb — had 
acted ; dep. intrans. nominal sentence. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the verb — under patronage — -adverb, 
phrase. 

Adjunct of patronage — whose — ad nominal word. 

Examples. — I cudgelled the fellow with sl hearty good will. 

We slept wider the bridge. 

I hereby protest against your proceedings. 

To their fidelity alone, their oppressor owed the power 
which he now employed for their ruin. 

By the French embassy, this scheme was warmly op- 
posed. 

At that time the king had no design of disbanding his 
army. 

During this time the queen remained at her palace. 

The river rose above its banks. 

65. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is an imperfect participial noun. 

The outlaw escaped by dropping himself down from a window. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — outlaw; verb — escaped; 
ind. intrans. sentence. 



144 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnominal word. 
Adjunct of the verb— by dropping — adverb, phrase. 
Connective — by ; essential element — dropping. 
Object of dropping — himself. 
Adjunct of dropping — down — adverb, word. 
Farther adjunct of dropping — from ivindoiv — ad- 
verb, phrase. Adjunct of window — a. 

Examples. — By turning in time, the hunter saved his life. 

In so doing, I am conscious of an honorable motive. 
The trustees discharged the teacher for neglecting his 
school. 

66. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a perfect participial noun. 

They convicted him of having killed his daughter. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — they; verb — convicted; 
object — him; indep. trans, sentence. 

The subject has no adjunct. 

Adjunct of the verb — of having killed — adverbial 
phrase ; connective — of— sec. conn. ; essential element 
— having hilled — a perf. participial noun. 

Object of having killed — daughter. 

Adjunct of daughter — his — adnom. word. 

Examples. — He was accused of having robbed the treasury. 
They exiled him for having supported the king. 
We all suspected him of having done the mischief. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 145 

67. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a neuter participial noun, which is 
always followed by its complement. 

This complement may be a perf. passive participle. 

After being harassed by marauders and worn with faiigur, they 
» reached liome. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — they ; verb — reached ; 
object— home * indep. trans, sentence. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the verb — after being ; connective — 
after ; essential element — the imperf. participial noun 
— being. 

Complement of being — harassed — adnom. word. 

Adj unct of harassed — by marauders — adverbial 
phrase. 

Second complement of being — worn. 

Connective between harassed and ivorn — AND — co- 
ordinate connective. 

Adjunct of worn — with fatigue — adverb, phrase. 

Examples. — The rogue escaped by seeming humbled. 

The plaintiff received remuneration for having- been 
wronged. 

68. The complement of the neuter participial noun 
used as the essential element of a phrase, may be an 
adjective. 

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146 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples. — The boy complained of being sick. 

The client accused the lawyer of having been false to his 

interests. 
He suspected me of being favorable to the interests of 

the king. 
My teacher punished me for having been pugnacious. 

69. A noun may be the complement of a neuter 
participial noun used as the essential element of a 
phrase. 

Examples. — The people accused him of having been a thief. 

For being a traitor, the king has deprived me of my 
office. 

70. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a personal pronoun. 

Examples. — The traveler remained with us all day. 
I call to you with all my voice. 
Without you he accomplishes nothing. 
The sheriff sent for them. 
He wrote to her. 

Note. — When personal pronouns are made the essential elements 
of phrases, they take the objective form. 

71. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a relative pronoun. 

The cave in which we lay, sheltered us. 

(a.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— cave; VEEB— shel- 
tered; OBJECT — us ; indep. trans, sentence. 
Adjunct of the SUBJECT— ^e—adnom. word. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 147 

Farther adjunct of the SUBJECT — in which we 
lay; dep. intrans. sentence. Connective — which; 
subject — we; verb — lay. . 

No adjunct of the subject. 

Adjunct of the verb — in which — adverb, phrase; 
connective — in — sec. ; essential element — which. 

The VEEB has no adjuncts. 

The OBJECT has no adjuncts. 

Note. — In this sentence, as in one already noticed, the relative 
pronoun, besides being the connective of an adnom. sentence, is the 
essential element of an adverb, phrase. 

Examples. — The good people with whom he lived, regarded him as 
a strange character. 
The sword with which he had defended himself, was 

wrested from his hand. 
The help that he depended upon, failed. 

(b.) In this sentence, that is the essential element of 
an adverb, phrase connected to depended by upon. 

Such as he agreed with, remained. 

(c.) As is a relative pronoun connecting the sentence 
he agreed to such. As is also the essential element of 
an adverb, phrase connected to agreed by ivith. 

72. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is the antecedent part of a compound 
relative pronoun. 



148 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

I decided it by what I heard. 

(a.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— /; VERB— decided; 
OBJECT — it; indep. trans, sentence. 

No' adjunct of the SUBJECT. 

Adjunct of the VERB — by what — adverb, phrase ; 
connective — by — sec. ; essential element — what (ante- 
cedent.) 

Adjunct of ivhat (antecedent) — whatlheard; con- 
nective — what (relative) ; subject — I; verb— heard; 
OBJECT — what (relative) ; dep. trans, adnom. sentence. 

No adjunct of the OBJECT. 

Examples. — In what he said, he showed a true spirit. 

You shall lose my friendship for what you have done. 
We are responsible for what we do 

Note. — "When what is used as an adjective, it is sometimes a com- 
pound word, and the relative part retains the force of a connective. 

He learned by what information he obtained, that the country was 

impassable. 

(b.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— he; VERB— learned; 
OBJECT — that the country was impassable ; ind. trans, 
sentence. 

The SUBJECT has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the VERB — by information — adverb. 
phrase. 

Adjunct of information — what — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of information — he obtained. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 149 

Connective — what (relative) ; subject — he ; verb 
— obtained; object — what; dep. trans, adnom. sen- 
tence. 

The OBJECT (of the indep. sentence) is analyzed 
like other neuter sentences. 

73. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element consists of a noun which has a par- 
ticiple for its adjunct. This phrase has no connective. 

The sun being risen, ice departed. 

(a.) Analysts : — Subject — we ; verb — departed ; 
indep. intrans. sentence. 

Subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the verb — sun being — adverb, phrase, 
consisting of a noun and participle. 

Complement of being — risen. 

74. In the expression sun being risen, we have a fact 
assumed which would be asserted in a neuter sen- 
tence. This element is used to limit the verb, and is 
equivalent to the dependent sentence when the sun was 
risen. It is therefore, an adverbial element, and we 
shall, for convenience, classify it with adverbial 
phrases. 

This done, he tuned his lyre. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — he;verh — tuned; object 
— lyre; indep trans, sentence. 



150 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the verb — this done — adverb, phrase. 

Examples. — The fire having ceased to rage, we went home. 
The ivork being finished, we paid the laborers. 
The day being far spent, we pitched our tent. 

75. The verb may be limited by a phrase whose 
essential element is a noun which has no connective. 

The pedestrian walked five miles an hour. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — pedestrian; verb — walk- 
ed; inclep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — adnominal word. 

Adjunct of the verb — miles — adverb, phrase with- 
out connective. 

Adjunct of miles — -five — adnom. word. 

Farther adjunct of walked — hour — adverb, phrase — 
without connective. 

Adjunct of hour — AN — adnom. word. 

Note. — It is evident that the relation usually expressed by a con- 
nective, is understood with such nouns as home, way, hour, and other 
nouns expressing time, distance, &c. These nouns are, therefore, fre- 
quently essential elements of phrases which have no connectives. 

Examples. — The army marched this tcay. 

Home ! you idle creatures, get you home. 
The election will be held next week. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 151 

76. Sometimes the phrase itself becomes the essen- 
tial element of a phrase, and is connected to the word 
limited by another connective. 

Indeed you would have thought that the church had been consecrated to 
Satan instead of to the Deity. 

(a.) In this case instead (an adverb) is limited by 
of to the Deity ; conn, of; essential element — to the 
Deity. 

Example. — The mountebanks came from over the sea. 



THE ADVERBIAL SENTENCE. 

77. The verb may be limited by an Adverbial Sen- 
tence. 

I had not returned when you arrived. 

(a.) Analysis :— SUBJECT— I; VERB— had re- 
turned; indep. intrans. sentence. 

The SUBJECT has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the VERB — not — adverbial word. 

Farther adjunct of the VERB — when you arrived ; 
connective — iv hen ; subject — you ; verb — arrived ; 
dep. intrans. adverb, sentence. 

Examples. — The governor left when the train came in. 
Thieves go about while honest men sleep. 
The mystery shall remain till the sea gives up her dead. 



152 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

/ care not with whom you associate. 

(6.) Analysis: — SUBJECT — /; VERB — care; 
indep. intrans. sentence. 

The SUBJECT has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the VERB — not — adverbial word. 

Farther adjunct of the VERB — with whom, you asso- 
ciate ; CONNECTIVE — whom / SUBJECT — you ; YEEB — 
associate ; dep. intrans. adverb, sentence. 

Adjunct of associate — with whom — adverb, phrase; 
connective — with ; essential element — whom. 

(c.) Note. — Whom, considered as the essential element of the 
phrase, is a interrogative pronoun. 

The keepers wondered by what means the conyict escaped. 

(d.) Analysis : — SUBJECT — keepers ; VERB — 
wondered ; indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — the — adnom. word. 

Adjunct of the VERB — by what means the convict 
escaped ; dep. intrans. adverb, sentence. 

Subject — convict ; verb — escaped. 

Adjunct of the subject — the — -adnom. word. 

Adjunct of the verb — by means ; adverb, phrase. 

Adjunct of means — what— adverb, word. 

They will obtain the prize, if they persevere. 

(e.) If they persevere is a dep. intrans. adverb, sen- 
tence connected by if to will obtain. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 153 

EXAMPLES OF ADVERBIAL SENTENCES. 

If the enterprise is successful, its opposers will be silenced. 

Though he slay me, I will trust in him. 

Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 

I will not strike him, unless he resists me. 

I care not whether you go or stay. 

Take heed lest ye fall. 

They attacked me while I slept. 

" I saw him once before 
As he passed by my door ; 
And again, 

The pavement stones resound 
As he totters o'er the ground, 
With his cane." 

Before the day dawned, we were upon our journey. 
After I had thus delivered my sentiments, I experienced great 
relief. 

" Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! 
Come to the mother, when she feels, 
For the first time, her first-born's breath ; 
Come, when the blessed seals 
That close the pestilence are broke, 
And crowded cities wail its stroke ; 
Come, in consumption's ghastly form, 
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; 
Come, when the heart beats high and warm 
With banquet, song, and dance, and wine — 
And thou art terrible." 



ADJUNCTS op the OBJECT in a TRANSITIVE SENTENCE. 

78. The object may be limited by any adjunct that 

can modify the subject. (See article on Adjuncts of 

the Subject.) 

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154 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(a.) The object may be limited by one or more 
adnom. words. 

Examples. — I saw a great white throne. 

The Mexicans had already built a strong stone eort. 

At this moment we heard a slight rustle in the tall grass. 

(b.) The object may be limited by an adnom. 
phrase. 

Examples. — At this place we witnessed a grand trial of strength be- 
tween two Ohoctaws. 
Hildreth has written a history of the United States. 
Have you read the works of Bacon ? 
No man fully comprehends the philosophy of life. 

(c.) The object may be limited by an adnominal 
sentence. 

Examples. — We know the man whom you have described. 

The old gentleman soon heard a tittering in the crowd, 

for which he could not account. 
This act redeemed a character which had been blackened 
by many crimes. 

ADJUNCTS of the COMPLEMENT in a NEUTER SENTENCE. 

79. When the complement is a noun or pronoun, it 
may be limited by any adjunct that can limit the 
subject : viz., one or more adnom. words, phrases, or 
sentences. 

Examples. — Our Washington was a glorious hero. 

My uncle was always an overbearing, rude man. 
Take pity on me, sir, I am a man in deep trouble. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 155 

He wore sandals on his feet, and his head-dress was a turban 
of many colors. ' 

The Bible is a book ichich all should study. 

He was a statesman who always lifted his voice against cor- 
ruption ; he was a soldier who was, at all times, ready to 
do battle against injustice. 

80. When the complement is an adjective or parti- 
ciple, it may be limited by one or more adverbial 
words, phrases, or sentences. 

Examples. — The enemy are advancing rapidly. 
Yon drunkard is utterly lost. 
I am weary of labor. 
" My father," said she, " will be angry if you interfere." 
The king was disturbed because he had seen a vision. 



156 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



CHAPTER VIII, 

SUBJECT OF VEKB3 INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES, 

1. The noun or pronoun whose action or existence 
is expressed by a verb infinitive, is called the subject 
of the infinitive. 

Examples : — I plunged in arid bade him follow. 
He commanded me to desist. 
The ant told the butterfly to go about his business. 

2. The subject of a sentence is often also subject 
of an infinitive which follows the verb. 

Examples : — He promised to undertake the work. 
I wish to know the facts. 
I am to write an exercise. 
We determined to try an experiment 

3. Frequently the infinitive with its subject, forms 
the objective element in a transitive sentence. 

Our friends urged us to pursue the fugitive. 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject— -friends ; verb — urged ; 
object — us to pursue ; indep. trans, sentence. 
Adjunct of the subject — our — adnom. word. 
No adjuncts of the verb. 
(b.) The object is composed of the objective pro- 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 157 

noun us and the infinitive to pursue, of which us is the 

subject and fugitives the object. 

* 

^Examples : — The astonished savage saw the balloon sail through the 
skies. 
I have seen the smoke rise from a hundred burning 
cities. 

4. The essential element of a phrase is sometimes 
fon infinitive with its subject. 

For me to live is Christ. 

(a.) Me to live is the essential element of the phrase 
for me to live, while the whole phrase is subject of is. 

Example : — It is perhaps well enough, for a man of long experience 
to make the attempt, but for a boy to undertake such a 
work, is simply ridiculous. 

(b.) This use of the infinitive is idiomatic, and the 
phrase with its infinitive is subject of the verb. 

5. The infinitive, however, is most frequently used 
to express an action abstractly, in which case, it is 
used as a verbal noun and has no definite subject. 

The desire to live is innate. 

(a.) Here to live is a verbal noun, in apposition with 
desire, and has no definite subject. 

Examples : — To serve you is my desire. 

It was dangerous to encounter him. 

To climb the precipice was a dangerous experiment. 



158 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(b.) In this case to climb is a verbal noun, sub- 
ject of the verb was, and has itself no definite sub- 
ject, 

THE SUBJECT OF PARTICIPLES. 

6. The noun or pronoun which is limited by a 
participle, may be called its subject. 

Islands yielding every variety of fruits, dotted the sea. 

(a.) Yielding is a participle limiting islands which 
is its subject. 

7. A noun or pronoun which is subject of a parti- 
ciple, may be subject or object of a sentence or the 
essential element of a phrase. 

Leveling his pistol, the hunter deliberately fired. 

(a.) In this case hunter, the subject of the participle, 
is also subject of the sentence. 

Examples : — Fighting for the right, he gained a glorious martyr- 
dom. 
Uncas, running at full speed, soon overtook the fright- 
ened maid. 

J left my father weeping. 

(b.) Here father, the subject of weeping, is object of 
the verb left. 

Examples : — They pushed Gilkison, still begging for mercy, to the end 
of the plank. 
He spurned me kneeling at his feet. 
The bystanders remained with their heads uncovered. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 159 

(c.) In this case, the essential element of a phrase, 
is the subject of the participle uncovered. 

Examples : — The tree grew near the brink of a pit partially filled with 
rubbish. 
They next attempted to throw me into the sea roaring 
horribly below. 

8. Frequently the participle with its subject, forms 
the objective element in a transitive sentence. 

We heard the storm howling. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — we; verb — heard; ob- 
ject — storm howling. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 

The verb has no adjuncts. 

The object is composed of the noun storm and the 
participle howling, the subject of which is storm. 

Adjunct of storm — the — adnom. word. 

Examples : — I saw the city burning. 

Did you hear the child crying 1 



160 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



CHAPTER IX. 

OBJECT OF VERBS INFINITIVE AND PARTICIPLES. 

1. A transitive verb, infinitive or participle, re- 
quires an element in the objective relation. 

He sought to avoid the consequences. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — he; verb — sought; ob- 
ject — to avoid ; indep. trans, sentence. 

The subject has no adjunct. 

The verb has no adjunct. 

The object to avoid is itself a transitive verb in- 
finitive, and consequently requires an object. 

Object of the infinitive to avoid— consequences. 

We can outnumber them. 

(b.) Analysis: — Subject — we; verb — can; adjunct 
of can — outnumber — a verb infinitive ; indep. in- 
trans. sentence. 

The subject has no adjunct. 

Object of outnumber — THEM. 

Examples : — The injured man whom you dare not confront, implores 
you to spare his children. 
The poor man desired me to ask that your honor would 
send relief. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 161 

(c.) In this example, the sentence that your honor 
would send, &c, is the object of the transitive infini- 
tive ask, and relief is the object of the trans, infinitive 
send. 

OBJECT OF TRANSITIVE PARTICIPLES. 

2. Transitive participles require an element in the 
objective relation. 

Turning their horses, the troops rode back to the fort. . 

(a.) Analysis: Subject — troops; verb — rode; in- 
dep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject, the and turning adnominal 
words. 

Object of turning — HORSES. 

Adjunct of horses — their — adnominal word. 

Adjunct of the verb — bach — adverbial word. 

Farther adjunct of the verb — to fort — adverbial 
phrase ; connective — to — sec. ; essential element — 
fort 

Adjunct of fort — the — adnominal word. 

He arrests Captain George, honest George, whom we all delight in 

KNOWING. 

(b.) In this sentence in knowing is an adverbial 
phrase — the adjunct of delight, and whom is the object 
of the transitive participle knowing. 



162 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Believing what / believe , I can not sanction this act. 

(c.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— I; VEEB— can; ad- 
junct of can — sanction — an infinitive ; indep. in- 
trans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the SUBJECT — believing — adnominal 
word. 

Object of believing — WHAT (antecedent.) 

Adjunct of what (antecedent) — WHAT I believe : 
con. what (rel.) sec. ; subject — I ; verb — believe ; 
object — what (relative ;) dep. trans, adnom. sentence. 

Adjunct of the VEEB — not — adverbial word. 

Object of sanction — act. 

Adjunct of act — this — adnominal word. 

(d.) Note. — The object of a participle, like the object of a verb, may 
be a tvord, or a sentence. 

Examples. — Promising us another visit, our friends departed. 
Promising to visit us again, our friends departed. 
Promising that they would visit us again, our friends 
departed. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 1G3 



CHAPTBE X. 

GERERAL LIMITATION OF WORDS. 

(1.) A noun or pronoun, in whatever relation it 
stands to other words in the sentence, may be limited 
by an adnominal word, an adnominal phrase, or an 
adnominal sentence. 

Note. — The noun and pronoun possessive are not often limited by an 
adnominal phrase or sentence. 

ADNOMINAL WORDS. 

2. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by a noun in apposition. 

We sent letters by Peter, the post-boy. 

(a.) Analysis: — Subject — we; verb — sent; object 
— letters; indep. trans, sentence. 

The subject has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the verb — by Peter — adverbial phrase. 

Adjunct of Peter — post-boy — adnominal word — a 
noun in apposition. 

Adjunct of post-boy — the — adnominal word. 

Examples : — Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me 1 

I, James, who saw the deed, can testify. 
The lion, grim monarch of the forest, roams in these 
wilds unmolested. 



164 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

3. Common nouns in any relation, may be limited 
by proper names. 

(a.) Note. — Nouns here called common are frequently common only 
in respect to the limiting proper noun. In fact the distinction of com- 
mon and proper nouns is seldom absolute. 

Robert Fulton first tried navigation by steam 

(a.) The proper name Robert here limits the more 
common noun Fulton. 

Examples : — Franklin Pierce was elected president. 

We are all acquainted with the Arnold treachery. 
Lately we hear less of the Bourbon question. 

4. A proper noun in any relation, is sometimes 
limited by a common noun. 

Examples : — An old soldier was seen weeping at the grave of 
General Jackson. 
Who does not love the memory of the brave Count 
Pulaski I 

5. A noun in any relation may be limited by a 
aoun or pronoun possessive. 

Examples : — The valorous Don's safety lay in his light-footedness. 
The monster stole away my children. 
The company were soon in sight of the Indians' huts. 
Let every freeman's deepest interest be in his country's 

good. 
We have at last discovered your motive. 

6. A noun or pronoun in any relation may be 
limited by an intensive pronoun. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 165 

Examples : — The sheriff at last found the old rogue himself hidden in 
the wood. 
In his impious boldness, he laid violent hands on the 

shrine itself. 
You yourself condemn me. 

7. A noun in any relation, may be contained in, 
and limited by, one of the double pronouns, mine, 
thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs. 

He forgot his hatchet and tried to borrow mine. 

(a.) The word mine is a double pronoun equivalent 
to my hatchet 

Examples : — I have lost my pen : will you lend me yours ? 

The hut stood on the limit of Rolfe's plantation : which, 

you know, joined mine. 
I have no confidence in my own discretion, but I can 

trust in yours. 

8. A noun in any relation may be limited by the 
relative pronoun possessive. 

(a.) Note. — Whose is the common possessive of all the relative 
pronouns. 

This is he whose story you have often heard. 

(b.) Whose is a relative pronoun possessive and as 
an adnominal word limits story. 

Examples : — The benefactor through whose influence you gained 
wealth, is a beggar at your door. 
Macdonald was a brawling fellow whose character every 
one despised. 

9. Any noun, whatever be its relation, may be 
limited by an adjective. 



166 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples : — He was a hardy larborer. 

The tower stood near the top of a steep hill. 
Your house is stronger than mine. 
My lord also had this bad habit. 

10. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by an imperfect trans, or in trans, participle. 

/ left him raving like a madman. 

(a.) Raving is an adnominal word — an intransitive 
imperfect participle, limiting him. 

Examples • — I saw my son burning to avenge my wrongs. 

What is the name of yonder horseman riding at such a 
furious pace ? 

11. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by a perfect trans, or intrans. participle. 

The child having inherited nothing, was wholly dependent on my father's 

bounty. 

(a.) Having inherited is here an adnominal word 
limiting child. Having inherited is a perf. trans, 
participle. 

12. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by an imperfect or perfect neuter participle 
followed by its complement. 

This building being made of wood,they quickly destroyed. 

(a.) In this example being is an imperfect neuter 
participle limiting building. It is followed by its 
complement made, which also limits building. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 10*7 

Examples : — The experiment having been tried, once before, we easily 
performed it 
In this crazy craft, haviny been abandoned for years as 

unseaworthy, we at last set sail. 
Upon me, being already faint and weary, they placed a 
heavy load. 

13. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by a passive participle. 

Examples : — The 3d regiment, dressed in full uniform, was on drill. 
The captain, astonished at such impudence, replied. 

14. A noun, in any relation, may be limited by an 
infinitive. 

Examples : — My friend always showed a determination to excel. 
We are surrounded by incentives to labor. 

15. When the essential element of a phrase is a 
trans, verb infinitive, it requires an object ; when it is 
a neut. infinitive, it always requires its complement. 

Examples : — He succeeded in his effort to procure a cessation of 

hostilities. 
The Englishman also gave a promise to reward us. 
Your desire to be foremost renders you disagreeable. 
The soldier was shot on account of a threat to desert 

the army. 
If you give a pledge to be a peaceable man, you shall 

not be disturbed. 

16. A noun or pronoun may sometimes be limited 
by an infinitive in apposition. 



168 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examples : — Then all my brother's labors ; to draw the water, to 
cut the wood, and many other things, fell to me. 
" This was earth's liberty, its nature this 
Each man to make all subject to his will." 

17. General Examples in Adnominal Words. 

We heard the footfall of Bigfoot, our old enemy. 

Benedict Arnold betrayed his country. 

Commodore Perry gained a great victory. 

The blacksmith's strength is in his arm. 

My life is dear to me. 

By the judge himself was the theft committed. 

My wife, whose disposition was not the sweetest, next beset me. 

He buried his treasures under a dwarf oak. 

I heard him stamping and cursing awfully. 

ADNOMINAL PHRASES. 

18. A noun or pronoun, in any relation, may be 
limited by an adnominal phrase whose essential ele- 
ment is a noun or pronoun. 

Examples : — We contend for the liberty of the press. 
Truly this knight had a heart of stone. 
He of the green armor thus replied. 
My father gave me a choice of the professions. 
This city has gates of pearl and streets of gold, 
" I saw the curl of his waving lash. 
And the glance o/his knowing eye." 

He sought fame, of which he knew the emptiness. 

Next was a cage of iron, which held a crowd of mon- 
keys. 

A mountain the top of which was hidden by clouds, rose 
on our left. 

Here is the plain that I rode over. 



Al^ALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 1G9 

(a.) The phrase over that limits plain. 

19. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by an adnominal phrase, whose essential 
element is a perfect or imperfect participial noun, 
transitive or intransitive. 

Examples : — I will give you a form for writing a note. 

He had the rare habit of steadily pursuing' one train of 
thought at a time. 

He was arrested on suspicion of having stolen the 
money. 

The soldier received forty lashes, as a punishment for 
having violated orders. 

These circumstances seem to have called into requisi- 
tion all your tact in lyings and shrewdness in cheat- 
ing. 

20. A noun or pronoun, in any relation, may be. 
limited by an adnominal phrase, whose essential 
element is a neuter participial noun, perfect or im- 
perfect, followed by its complement. 

J confess I had no hope of being released. 

(a.) Of being is here the phrase limiting hope — being 
is the essential element, and is followed by its com- 
plement released. 

Examples : — The fact of having been free once, made my chains 

more galling. 
These runaways well knew the consequences of being 

caught. 
All this was the result of having been inactive so long. 
I was in despair at the certainty of being a prisoner 

for life. 



170 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



ADNOMINAL SENTENCES. 

21. A noun may be limited by a sentence in appo- 
sition. 

The poor man was impressed with a belief, that the image of his 

FATHER STOOD BESIDE HIM. 

(a.) The sentence that father stood, is in apposition 
with beliefs and consequently limits it. 

Examples : — " This fool holdeth the opinion, that the earth is round, 
and that it traveleth yearly around the sun." 
He died happy in the certainty that death is not an 

eternal sleep. 
The sentiment of Pope, •' A little learning is a dangerous 
thing" contains a dangerous fallacy. 

22. A noun or pronoun in any relation, may be 
limited by an adnominal sentence whose connective 
is a relative pronoun. 

The party discovered a river which empties into the gulf. 

(a.) The sentence which empties into the gulf limits 
river. 

Examples : — There is a hope which no adversity can destroy. 
Hear the voice of him who speaks to you. 
The world knows the motive which you have attempted 

to conceal. 
I myself attempted to teach this boy whom the master 

had given up. 
William was proud to stand near him who had always 

been his friend. 
I have slain such as you are. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 171 

He chose from our company as many as he wanted. 
Greater commotion than 1 had ever seen now commenced. 

(See articles on as and than in adnominal sentences 

qualifying the subject.) 
We obtained more food than we wanted. 
Thomas saw what I described. 

(J.) Analysis:— SUBJECT — Thomas; VERB— 
saw ; OBJECT — what {antecedent) indep. transitive 
sentence. 

No adjunct of the SUBJECT. 

No adjunct of the VERB. 

Adjunct of the object — what (relative) I described ; 
connective — what {relative ;) subject — /; verb — 
described ; object — what {relative) ; dep. transitive 
sentence. 

Examples : — I saw in the distance what seemed to be a raft. 

The traveler stood beside what was once a great city 
In this way Simon obtained whatever he coveted. 

23. A noun or pronoun may be limited by an ad- 
nominal sentence, whose connective is a relative pro- 
noun, which is also the essential element of a phrase 
limiting another word. 

He played a trick for which J was prepared. 

{a.) Analysis:— SUBJECT— he; VERB— played; 
OBJECT — trick ; indep. trans, sentence. 

The SUBJECT and VERB have no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the OBJECT— -for which I was pre- 
pared; connective — which; subject — I; verb— 



172 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

was; complement — prepared; dep. neuter adnom. 
sentence. 

The subject and verb have no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the complement— -for which — adverb, 
phrase. 

Examples : — The murderers rushed into the house in which my 
father lived. 
It is your promise in which I trust. 
The tinker always carried a tin flask, of which I did not 

then know the use. 
A part of what was found was valuable. 

24. A noun or pronoun may be limited by an 
adnom. sentence, whose connective is a relative pro- 
noun possessive, which is the adjunct of another 
noun. 

I felt a compassion for the peasant whose mule I had taken. 

(a.) Analysis : — SUBJECT — I; VEEB— felt; 
OBJECT — compassion; indep. trans, sentence. 

The SUBJECT has no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the object — for peasant — adverbial 
phrase. 

Adjunct of peasant — whose mule I had taken ; con- 
nective — whose ; SUBJECT — I ; verb — had taken ; 
object — mule ; dep. trans, adnom. sentence. 

Subject and verb have no adjuncts. 

Adjunct of the object — ivhose — adnominal word. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 173 

Examples : — He was a man whose highest ambition was to please his 
palate. 
The miners discovered a vein whose richness exceeded 
their highest expectations. 

25. A noun, in any relation, may be limited by 
an adnominal sentence whose connective is not a 
relative pronoun. 

Examples : — No one knows the day token he must die. 

Show me the place where the battle was fought. 
I will tell you the reason why you are disappointed. 



ADVERBIAL WORDS. 

26. Any verb, participle, adjective, or adverb, may 
be limited by one or more adverbial words. 

Examples : — Great masses move slowly. 

I overtook him sauntering lazily along. 

The traveler's eye next falls upon a chasm, broad and 

very deep. 
Tell the advance guard to push forward more rapidly. 
He only insisted upon it the more strongly. 

27. A verb, adjective, or participle, may be limited 
by an infinitive. 

Examples : — The victim of this cruelty longed to die. 

His clansmen were determined to avenge his death. 
The workmen are eager to begin. 

28. When the limiting element is a transitive 
verb infinitive, it takes an object ; when it is a 
neuter infinitive it always requires it complement. 



174 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Examines : — I will order him to leave the ground. 

He was commanded to take the fort. 

We were not sorry to leave this pest behind. 

The way is said to be difficult. 

The cave was supposed to have been a resort for rob- 
bers. 

She was ready to be a martyr for the cause of truth. 

Webster was reported to have been opposed to the 
bill. 



ADVERBIAL PHRASES. 

29. A verb, participle, or adjective, may be limited 
by one or more adverbial phrases. 

30. A verb, participle, or adjective, may be limited 
by an adverbial phrase, whose essential element is a 
noun or pronoun. 

Examples : — The hermit dwells in the wood. 

My friend was sitting near a rock. 

This medicine is good for colds. 

The beauteous landscape was made for me as well as for 

the proud man who calls it his. 
Three men passed me, going in great haste. 
A gentleman was waiting for me. 
I believe I was always kind to her. 
I forget the name of the village at which we stopped. 
My neighbors, with whom I had talked before on the 

subject, were of my opinion. 
As many as he conversed with,he deceived. 

(a.) As is a relative pronoun in this example, and is 
the essential element of an adverbial phrase connected 
to conversed by toith. 

The weapon that I fought him with, was an ax. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 175 

(b.) Here that, beside being the connective of an 
adnominal sentence, is the essential element of an 
adverbial phrase, the adjunct of FOUGHT, and con- 
nected to it by with — sec. connective. 

Examples : — The invalid with whom he was traveling was a decided 
wag. 
The animal, in pursuit of which he had forgotten food 

and rest, was yet out of reach. 
The capital that Astor began trading with, was small. 
The hoy begged for what he wanted. 

(c.) Analysis:— SUBJECT — boy; VEEB — %- 
ged ; indep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the VERB— for what (antecedent) ; 
adverbial phrase; connective — for — sec; essential 
element — what, (antecedent.) 

Adjunct of ivhat, (antecedent,) — what he vjanted ; 
connective — ivhat, (relative ;) subject — he ; verb 
— wanted; object — what (relative;) dep. transitive 
adverbial sentence. 

Examples : — The captain was always ready with what he had. 

The commodore determined to resist with what force he 

could muster. 
The dying miser was clutching his gold with what 

strength he had left. 
The thief refused to tell from whose pocket he had stolen 

the money. 
For whose death are you mourning ? 
Peter was glad when the brother, for whose money he had 

waited long, died. 

SI. A verb, participle, or adjective, may be limited 



176 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

by an adverbial phrase whose essential element is a 
perfect or imperfect participial noun, trans, or intrans. 

Examples : — By leaping the ditch the chieftain gained a safe place. 
Harry hastened his death by taking medicine. 
The soldier was punished for deserting. 
I am weary of toiling. 
The old fellow was wearying us by telling a long story 

of wo. 
A pen is useful for inviting. 
He was hanged for having slain his brother. 
After having bound me, my master flogged me, 
He turned his attention to gambling. 
The countryman was complaining of having lost his 

money. 
The poor boy was sorry for having left his parents. 

32. A verb, adjective, or participle, may be limited 
by an adverb, phrase whose essential element is a 
neuter participial noun followed by its complement. 

Examples : — The gambler himself complained of having been cheated. 
He was angry at having been deceived. 
The house was suspected of being haunted. 
The holy man rejoiced in being a martyr. 
lie "was sick of being a slave. 
We were determined on being free. 

33. A verb, participle, or adjective, may be limited 
by a phrase without a connective, and whose essential 
element is a noun and a participle. 

Our errand being finished, we left her. 

(a.) Errand being is an adverbial phrase limiting 
left Finished is the complement of being. If we 
analyze this phrase more closely, we shall find 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 177 

that errand is the subject of the assumed predicate 
being finished, and, since a participle always limits 
its subject, being and finished are adnominal words 
limiting errand, while the phrase taken as a unit 
limits the verb left This construction has other 
forms. 

Examples : — " By its own hand it fell, part slaying part." 
Our visitors having- departed we were alone. 
His knapsack having been packed, he was ready for a 
march. 

34. A verb, participle, or adjective, may be limited 
by an adverbial phrase, without a connective whose 
essential element is a noun. 

Examples : — The siege lasted a year. 

He was fasting forty days. 
The stars were bright all night. 
The horse ran a mile. 

35. Some interjections are limited by adverbial 
phrases. 

Example : — Alas for poor human nature ! 
ADVERBIAL SENTENCES. 

36. A verb, participle, or adjective, may be limited 
by one or more adverbial sentences. 

Examples : — This glutton always slept when he was not eating. 
He was never sick while he was a sailor. 
Albert was gone when the roll was called. 
Toiling, for I had never learned to he idle, I spent my 
time contentedly. 



178 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The teacher explained by what process the result was 

found. 
His father was angry because he had told a lie. 

87. Several words, used as secondary connectives, 
have also some force as adjectives ; as adjectives they 
are sometimes limited by adverbial adjuncts. 

Your son appears somewhat like you 

(a.) Analysis : — Subject — son ; verb — appears ; in- 
dep. intrans. sentence. 

Adjunct of the subject — your — adnom. word. 

Adjunct of the verb — like you — adverb, phrase. 

Adjunct of like, (in its adjectival force,) — somewhat 
* — adverb, word. 

Examples : — The house stood very near the hill. 
The knife is well worth a dollar. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 179 



CHAPTER XI. 

INDEPENDENT WORDS. 

1. Words having no grammatical relation to other 
words in the sentence are called independent words. 

2. The name of a person or thing addressed is an 
independent word. 

James, attend to your studies. 

(a.) James is an independent word — the name of a 
person addressed. 

Examples : — John, come here. 

Samuel, stand still. 

Earth, thou art a hill to me. 

3. Note. — In many cases the noun independent by address, has 
merely the force of an interjection. If I see my friend, with whose 
name I am perfectly familiar, standing in a perilous place, my first 
movement is to arrest his attention. This I do by calling his name, 
" Peter !" His attention being thus secured, I continue, " come 
away." Now, if in my excitement I have forgotten his name, I say, 
" Halloo !" for the same purpose, and then give him the same com- 
mand. No one will deny that halloo is an interjection grammatically 
independent of the sentence in which it is found. Does the office that 
the noun James performs in the first expression differ from that of 
halloo in the second 1 They are both independent words, used to arrest 
attention, and both are substitutes for a suppressed sentence. 



180 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

4. Nouns are frequently made independent by 
exclamation. 

Examples : — Ah, the misery of suspense ! 

Oh, the desolation of bereavement ! 
A horse ! a horse ! My kingdom for a horse ! 
Life I life I Only let me live. 
" Our fathers, where are they?' 
" Remorseless Time — 
Fierce spirit of the glass and scythe — what power 
Can stay him in his silent course, or melt 
His iron heart to pity'?" 

5. Interjections are independent words. 

Examples : — Oh, how I loved that gracious boy ! 
Hush ! did you hear a footstep ] 
" Ho ! cowards, have ye left me 
To meet him here alone'?" 

6. Note. — Interjections, as well as nouns independent, must be 
regarded as substitutes for independent sentences. Alas that thou 
shouldst die, is equivalent (grammatically) to It is sad that thou, &c. 
Thus frequently we find the interjection limited precisely as though 
the sentence, instead of the substituted word, were written. In fact, 
many interjections being intransitive verbs in the imperative mode, are 
complete sentences in themselves. 

Examples : — Ho ! look ! hush ! hist ! avaunt ! away ! farewell ! 

7. Many interjections are transitive imperatives. 

Examples : — Hold ! lo ! see ! behold ! &c. 
Example : — Lo the poor Indian, <fc. 

8. Many interjections are adjectives, which in the 
full construction, are complements of neuter verbs. 



ANALYSTS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 181 

(a.) Examples: — Welcome != (You are welcome,) strange != (It is 
strange,) &c. &c. 

But from whatever words they are derived, they 
are mere substitutes for sentences, which it is usually 
easy to state. 

Many interjections are followed by a nominal 
sentence. 

" Oh, THAT I WERE INNOCENT AGAIN." 

(a.) This sentence is equivalent to I wish that I 
were, &c. 

Examples : — Alas ! my noble boy, that thou shouldst die." 
" Oh that I were as in months past." 



182 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 



CHAPTER XII. 

COMPLEMENT OF WORDS. 

1. Any element in language which completes the 
sense of a word may be called its complement. The 
complement may be a word, phrase, or sentence. 

2. The object of a transitive verb may be called its 
complement, since the object completes the sense of 
the verb. 

Examples : — I had a dream. 

The committee desired to retire. 
I fear that the worst is yet to come. 

3. In the neuter sentence as before shown, the verb 
must be followed by a complement, which is an 
adjunct of the subject. 

Examples : — Ye are knaves. 

They seem in earnest. 

The truth is, we have lost our way. 

4. The neuter verb infinitive or participle must 
be followed by a complement which is an adjunct of 
its subject. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 183 

/ desire to be lenient. 

(a.) Lenient is the complement of to be and an adjunct 
of I, which is the subject of to be. 

Being in great danger, we fled. 

(b.) In danger, an adnom. phrase, is the complement 
of being and the adjunct of we, which is the subject of 
being. 

Having been thwarted in my endeavors, I left the ground. 

(c.) When the neuter infinitive or participle is used 
nominally, it frequently has no subject, but is still 
followed by a complement. 

His being a clergyman did not deter him from engaging in 'politics. 

(d.) Being in this example is subject of the sentence, 
and clergyman is its complement. 

To be eminent in learning requires long study. 

5. A passive participle derived from a transitive 
verb, whose object is composed of two nouns, or a 
noun and a pronoun, meaning the same person or 
thing, will be followed by one of these nouns as its 
complement, while the other becomes the subject of 
the sentence. 

(a.) In the example, 

They named him Jacob. 

when the transitive verb named is changed to a 



184 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

passive participle, the noun Jacob becomes its comple 
merit, while him takes the subjective form, and is the 
subject of the neuter sentence; as, he was named 
Jacob. 

The disciples were called Christians. 

(a.) Sub. — disciples ; — verb — were ; complement — 
called; indep. neuter sentence, complement of the 
passive participle, Christians. 

Examples : — Sikes was elected leader. 

The pupils were taught book-keeping. 
They were termed Shakers. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 185 



EXAMPLES FOE EXEEOISES AND REVIEW. 



EXAMPLES OF TRANSITIVE SENTENCES. 
Page 23, No. 11. 

" The Scottish clans in headlong sway, 

Had swept the scarlet ranks away." — Scott. 
|{ Events now shaped themselves." — Bancroft 

u His followers repeated his new title with affec- 
tionate delight." — Macaulay. 

u He professed in vehement terms his remorse for 
his treason."—- Ibid. 

EXAMPLES OF INTRANSITIVE SENTENCES. 
Page 24, No. 12. 

"His heart sank within him." — Macaulay. 
" Proctor and his suite escaped by timely flight to 
Ancaster, at the head of Lake Ontario." — Hildreih. 

"Here unmolested through whatever sign 
The sun proceeds, I wander." — Oowper. 

11 High on a throne of royal state Satan exalted sat." 



186 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

EXAMPLES OF NEUTER SENTENCES. 
Page 24, No. 13. 

" Your graves are dug amid the dismal clouds." 

Pottok. 
" Black was her garb, her rigid rule 

Reformed on Benedictine rule." — Scott. 

11 Her face was pale and thin — her figure too 

Was changed/' — Wordsworth. 
" My sword is thine." — Baillie. 

" He was a tender husband, an affectionate par- 
ent." — Bancroft. 



EXAMPLES OF DEPENDENT AND INDEPENDENT SEN- 
TENCES. 

Pages 24, 25, Nos. 15, 16. 

11 Give me the line that plows its stable course 
Like a proud swan." — Cowper. 
" In every country there were elderly gentlemen 
who had seen service which was no child's play." — 
Macaulay. 

" A third had defended his house till Fairfax had 
blown in the door with a petard." — Ibid. 

" In days of old when Arthur filled the throne, 
Whose acts and fame to foreign lands were blown, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 187 

The king of elves and little fairy queen 
GamboFd on heaths, and danced on every green ; 
And when the jolly troop had left the round, 
The grass unbidden rose." — Dryden. 

" Now, while I taste the sweetness of the shade, 

While nature lies around in deep-lulled noon, 

Now come, bold Fancy, spread a daring flight, 

And view the wonders of the torrid zone/' 

Thomson. 
'* But all in vain : for as tne distant hill, 

Which on the right or left, the traveler's eye 

Bounds, seems advancing as he walks, and oft 

He looks, and looks, and thinks to pass, but still 

It forward moves, and mocks his baffled sight, 

Till night descends and wraps the scene in gloom, 

So did this moral height the vision mock ;" 

Pollolc. 

11 When the doors were thrown open, and Conway 
went forth, there was an involuntary burst of grati- 
tude from the grave multitude, which beset the 
avenues ; they stopped him ; they gathered round him 
as children round a parent, as captives round a 
deliverer. " — Bancroft 

Page 25, No. 18. 

11 His reply was, he had come to conquer or die/' 
— Irving. 



]88 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

" I am of the family of Zobier, who are fools in 
the full of the moon, and if you look at the heavens 
you will see that this is my day" — Irving. 

a This was Saturday night, and on Monday he fore- 
told to his servants that ' by eight of the clock next 
morning they should lose their master.' " 

11 The beautiful part of this island, whom I am 
proud to number amongst the most candid of my 
readers, will do well to reflect that our dispute at 
present concerns our civil as well as religious rights" — 
Addison. 

11 That critical discernment is not sufficient to make 
men poets, is generally allowed. Why it should keep 
them from becoming poets, is not perhaps equally evi- 
dent.' ' — Macaulay. 

Page 25, No. 19. 

" The goldfinch, who, to shun the scalding heat, 
Had changed the medlar for a safer seat 

Now perched upon the lady of the flower. " 

Dryden. 

" There stood a hill not far, whose grisly top 
Belched fire and rolling smoke." — Milton. 

4 Great day ! for which all other days were made, 
For which earth rose from chaos, man from earth." 

Young. 



ANALYSIS OF THE KITGLISH SENTENCE. 189 

11 It passed o'er the battle-field where sword, 
And spear, and shield, flashed in the light 
Of midday." — Prentice. 

Page 25, No. 20. 

" And, while the garrison were meeting them reso- 
lutely on that quarter, the detachment on the neigh- 
boring heights poured into the place a well-directed 
fire." — Prescott. 

11 As long as the Coliseum stands, Eome shall 
stand ; when the Coliseum falls, Eome will fall ; when 
Eome falls, the world will fall." 

" But, if he joins the opposition, all his associates 
will expect that he will promote them." — Macaulay. 

"Herodotus wrote as it was natural that he should 
write." — Idem. 

" While this work of butchery was going on, num- 
bers were observed pushing off in the barks that lined 
the shore, and making the best of their way across the 
lake." — Prescott 

EXERCISES IN CONNECTIVES. 
Page 26, No. 24. 

" The wigwams and hovels were replaced by well- 
built houses." — Bar/croft. 



190 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Page 26, No. 25. 

u That the early Eomans should have had ballad- 
poetry, and, that this poetry should have perished, is, 
therefore, not strange." — Macaiday. 

Page 26, No. 26. 

" He well saw and well stated the immateriality of 
thought." — Hallam. 

Page 27, No. 27. 

" Our God hath raised the slave, 

And mocked the counsel of the wise, and the valor of 
the brave." — Macaulay. 

" Essex had neither the virtues nor the vices which 
enable men to retain greatness long." — Idem. 

Page 27, No. 29. 

"But in the glances of his eye, 
A penetrating, keen, and sly 
Expression found its home." — Scott. 

Page 27, No. 30. 

" He was without fear of God or man." 

Page 27, No. 31. 

" There was another, large of understanding, 
Of memory infinite ; of judgment deep, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 191 

Who knew all learning and all science knew, 
And all phenomena in heaven and earth 
Traced to their causes." — Pollok. 

Page 28, No. 32. 

"They fought like brave men, long and well. ,, 

Halleck. 

" Now and then events occurred which disturbed 

the wretched monotony of Frances Burney's life." — 

Macaulay. 

Page 28, No. 33. 

" Herminius smote Mamilius 
Through breastplate and through breast." — Idem. 

Page 28, No. 34. 

" When on the throne it sat, and round the neck 
Of millions riveted its iron chain, 
And on the shoulders of the people laid 
Burdens unmerciful — it title took 
Of tyranny, oppression, despotism." — Pollok. 

Page 28, No. 35. 

"The disinherited knight sprung from his steed, 
and also unsheathed his sword." — Scott. 

"Pope had perhaps wanted the judgment of Dry- 
den, but Dryden certainly wanted the diligence of 
Pope." — Johnson. 



192 ANALYSIS OP THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Page 29, No. 37. 

" Beholdest thou yonder, on the crystal sea, 
Beneath the throne of God an image fair V 
1 Polloh. 

" Once in the flight of ages past there lived a man." 

Montgomery. 

Page 29, No. 38. 

" Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle 
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, 
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the 

turtle, 
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? 
Know ye the land of the cedar and vine, 
Where the flowers ever blossom, the beams ever 

shine ; 
Where the light wings of zephyr, oppressed with 

perfume, 
Wax faint in the gardens of Gull in her bloom ; 
Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, 
And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; 
Where the tints of the earth and the hues of the 

sky, 
In color though varied, in beauty may vie, 
And the purple of ocean is deepest in dye ; 
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, 
And all save the spirit of man is divine?" — Byron. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. ] 93 

" In another apartment I was highly pleased with a 
projector who had found a device of ploughing the 
ground with hogs, to save the charges of ploughs, 
cattle, and labor/' — Swift 

Page 29, No. 39. 

" But if any man shall, by charging me with the- 
atrical behavior, imply that I utter any sentiments but 
my own, I shall treat him as a calumniator and a 
villain." — Pitt. 

" Wondering at my flight ." — Milton. 

" Some tempers wince at every touch.' 7 — Cowper. 

Page 30, No. 40. 

"While thus by his brilliant exploits and showy 
manners, he captivated the imaginations of his country- 
men, he won their hearts no less by his soldierlike 
frankness." — Prescott 

"When we pass from the science of medicine to 
that of legislation, we find the same differences be- 
tween the systems of these two great men." — Ma- 
caulay. 

u Escaping evermore. 

Yet with so many promises and looks 
Of gentle sort, that he whose arms returned 
Empty a thousand times, still stretched them out, 
And, grasping, brought them back again unfilled.'' 

Pollok. 



J 94 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Page 30, No. 41. 

a But it is less easy to understand why he should 
have been generally unpopular through the country.'' 

Macaulay. 

" We wonder that Sir Walter Scott never tried his 
hand on the Duke of Newcastle." — Idem. 

" I must go and tell the king that Cape Breton is 
an island." 

Page 35, No. 7. 

"To reverse the rod, to spell the charm backwards, 
to break the ties which bound a stupefied people to 
the seat of enchantment, was the noble aim of 
Milton." — Macaulay. 

Page 40, No. 2?. 

" It was Puteney's business, it seems, to abolish 
faro and masquerades, to stint the young Duke of 
Marlborough to a pint of brandy a day, and to pre- 
vail on Lady Jane to be content with three lovers at 
a time." — Macaulay. 

" 'Twas pitiful to see the early flower 
Nipped by the frost." — Pollok. 

Page 41, No. 29. 

11 It was even said that he had purposely allowed 
Washington to be taken, in hopes of the removal of 
the seat of government." — Hildreth. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 195 

11 It had been fondly hoped, when the Federal con- 
stitution was framed, that the cessation of the foreign 
slave-trade would be gradually followed by the ex 
tinction of slavery itself." — Hildreth. 

"It is clear that a writer, who falls into such mis- 
takes as these is entitled to no confidence whatever." 
-Macaulay. 

*' This phenomenon, it seems probable, was caused 
b/ the eruption of the distant Cotapaxi.''' — Prescott. 

Page 44, No. 35. 

" Myself shall mount the rostrum in his favor." — 
Addison. 

Page 45, No. 41. 

r% My sword and yours are kin." — Shahspeare. 
" lour sword and mine are different in construc- 
tion."' — Webster. 

Page 46, No. 45. 

"But this fastidiousness, which considers certain 
kinds of remuneration disgraceful to men of liberal 
condition, did not prevail in those simple ages." — 
Hallam. 

" Every man who attends to his own ideas, will dis- 
cover order as well as connexion in their succession. * 
— Lord Karnes. 



196 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Page 48, No. 57. 

" Appoint to office such men as deserve confi- 
dence.'' 

Page 49, No. 60. 

" This is what ranks the writer with the master- 
spirits of the age ! This is what has been described 
over and over again, in terms which would require 
some qualification if used respecting Paradise Lost!" 
Macaulay. 

Page 49, No. 60. 

" Whoever trespasses shall be punished/ 7 

Page 49, No. 60. 

" At once came forth whatever creeps." — Milton. 

Page 50, No. 63. 

" I know what qualities you desire in a friend." — 
Webster. 

Page 52, No. 64. 

" Who hath divided a watercourse for the over- 
flowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of 
thunder?" 

" the brute and rational 

To please him ministered, and vied among 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 197 

Themselves, who most should his desires prevent." 

Polloh. 

Page 55, No. 72. 

" Self-love and reason to one end aspire. 
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire ; 
But greedy that t its object would devour; 
This taste the honey, and not wound the flower." 

Pope. 

Page 56, No. 74. 

11 We are told that when a mere child, he stole away 
from his playfellows to a vault in St. James' fields, for 
the purpose of discovering the cause of a singular 
echo which he had observed there. It is certain that, 
at only twelve, he busied himself with very ingenious 
speculations on the art of legerdemain. These are 
trifles." — Macaulay. 

u To write history respectably — that is, to abbre- 
viate dispatches, and make extracts from speeches, 
to intersperse in due proportion epithets of praise 
and abhorrence, to draw up antithetical characters 
of great men, setting forth how many contradictory 
virtues and vices they united ; all this is very easy.' 3 
I — Idem. 

" You say that the man is innocent; that, he ia 
not." — Webster. 



198 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Page 57, No. 79. 

" Every one has his peculiarities."— - Webster. 

Page 58, No. 84. 

a The sons of heaven, archangel, seraph, saint. 
There daily read their own essential worth, 
And as they read, take place among the just, 
Or high or low, each as his value seems." — Polloh 

Page 58, No. 86. 

" None were found who would venture beyond the 
river." 

Page 59, No. 88. 

" And both of them made a covenant." — Qenesis. 

t Tage 59 ; No. 89. 

" Lepidus flatters both, 
Of both is flattered ; but he neither loves, 
Nor either cares for him." — Shakspeare. 

Page 64, No. 9. 

" We believe, that at this conjuncture, he had it in 
his power to give victory either to the Whigs or to 
the king's friends." — Idem. 

Page 66, No. 15. 
" For His elect's sake whom he hath chosen." 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 199 

11 The Black Prince, whom he had ungratefully 
offended, withdrew into Gruienne." — Hallam. 

Page 66, No. 16, (c.) 



u 



<< 



They turned, surprised, 

That they had missed so long, what now they 
found."— Polhh 

Page 67, No. 17, I. 

Me what is substance teach, 



And shadow what." — Polhh 
11 Son, give me thy heart." 

11 The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, 
she gave me of the tree and I did eat." — Genesis. 

Page 68, No. 17, II. 

11 And honest men bewailed all order void ; 
All laws annulled ; all property destroyed ; 
The venerable murdered in the streets ; 
The wise despised ; streams red with blood, 
Lands desolate ; and famine, at the door." 

Polhh. 

Page 71, No. 20. 

" I heard that the Greeks had defeated the Turks.'' 
11 You allege that the man is innocent." — Webster. 



200 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 



GENEEAL EXEECISES FOE ANALYSIS. 



THE CLOSING YEAR.— Prentice. 

1. 'Tis 1 midnight's* holy 3 hour — and* silence 5 now 
Is brooding,* like 7 a gentle spirit, o'er 7 

The still and pulseless world. Hark ! on 8 the winds 
The bell's* deep tones are swelling ; 'tis the knell 
Of 9 the departed year. 

2. No 3 funeral train 

Is sweeping 6 past ; yet, 4 on 7 the stream and 10 wood, 
With 7 melancholy light, the moonbeams rest, 
Like a pale, spotless shroud ; the air is stirred, 
As 11 by a mourners sigh ; and on yon cloud, 7 
That 12 floats 12 so still and 13 placidly thro' 7 heaven, 



1 Page 24, No. 13. 2 P. 114, 10. s P. 118, 22. 4 P. 28, 35. 
5 P. 34, 1. 7 P. 29, 36. What does like connect ? 8 On connects 
'winds to swelling. 9 P. 29, 38. Of connects year to knell. 
10 P. 27, 30. " As is here the connective of an adverbial sentence 
which is not expressed, perhaps — as it would be stirred. By connects 
sigh to a verb in this suppressed sentence. 12 P. 25, 19. To what 
does thai connect its sentence ? M P. 28, 32. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 201 

The spirits of the seasons seem to stand, 

Foung Spring, 1 bright summer, 1 Autumn's solemn 

form, 1 
And Winter 1 with his aged locks, and breathe 
In mournful cadences, 2 that come abroad 
Like the far wind-harp's wild and touching wail, 
A melancholy dirge 3 o'er the dead year, 
Gone* from earth for ever. 

3. ? Tis a time 

For memory and for tears. Within the deep, 
Still chambers of the heart, a specter dim, 
Whose 5 tones 6 are like 7 the wizard voice of Time, 
Heard 8 from the tomb of ages, points 9 its 10 cold 
And solemn finger to the beautiful 
And holy visions 2 that have passed away, 
And 11 left no shadow 3 of their loveliness 
On 12 the dead waste of life. 

4. That specter lifts 

The coffin-lid of hope, and 13 joy, and love, 

And, bending 14 mournfully above the pale 

Sweet forms that slumber there, scatters dead flowers 

O'er what 16 has passed to nothingness. 

5. The year 

1 Page 114, 12. 2 P. 1*70, No. 22, a P. 62, 1. What is the 
object of breathe ? 4 Gone is an adjunct of year. 5 P. 172, 24. 
6 P. 164, 5. 7 P. 78. (c.) 8 Of what is heard the adjunct? 
9 Specter is the subject of points. 10 P. 115, 15. u P. 26, 26. 
12 P. 29, 39. 13 P. 27, 30. u What does bending limit ? 

15 P. 148. {a.) 



202 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Has gone, and with it, 1 many a glorious throng 
Of happy dreams. Its mark is on 3 each brow, 3 
Its shadow on each heart. In its swift course, 
It waved its scepter o'er the beautiful— 
And they are* not. 

6. It laid its pallid hand 

Upon the strong man — and the haughty form 
Is fallen, 5 and the flashing eye is dim. 
It trod the hall 6 of revelry, where thronged 7 
The bright and joyous — and the tearful wail 
Of stricken ones is heard, where erst 8 the song 
And reckless shout resounded. 

7. It passed o'er 

The battle-plain, where sword and spear and shield 
Flashed in the light of midday — and the strength 
Of serried hosts is shivered, and the grass, 
Green 9 from the soil of carnage, waves above 
The crushed and mouldering skeleton. 

8. It came and faded like 10 a wreath of mist at eve ; 
Yet, ere it melted in the viewless air, 



1 With it is an adverbial phrase limiting the verb has gone, which 
is understood after throng. 2 P. IS. (c.) 4 The sentence they ctre 
not is not neuter ; the verb are, here signifies exist, and doe3 not 
require an adjunct of the subject after the verb ; the sentence is 
therefore intransitive. P. 24, 12 and 13. 5 P. 11. (b.) 6 P. 173, 25. 
7 What is the subject of thronged? 8 Erst is an adverb, word quali- 
fying resounded. 9 Green is the adjunct of grass. u P. 29, 39. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 203 

It heralded its 1 millions to their homes, 
In the dim land of dreams. 

9. Remorseless time, — 

Fierce spirit* of the glass and scythe, — what power 
Can stay 3 him* in his silent course, or melt 
His iron heart to pity ? On, still on 
He presses and forever. 

10. The proud bird, 

The condor of the Andes, that can soar 
Through heaven's unfathomable depths, or* brave 
The fury of the northern hurricane 
And 6 bathe his plumage in the thunder's home, 
Furls his broad wings at nightfall, and sinks down 
To rest upon his mountain-crag, — but Time 
Knows not the weight of sleep or weariness, 
And night s deep darkness has no chain to bind 7 
His rushing pinion. 8 

11. Revolutions sweep 

O'er earth, like troubled visions o'er the breast 
Of dreaming sorrow ; cities rise and sink, 
Like bubbles on the water ; fiery isles 
Spring, blazing 9 from the ocean, and go back 
To their mysterious caverns ; mountains rear 



1 Page 115, No. 15. 2 P. 163, 2. 3 P. 85, 18. * P. 160. (6). 
5 Or connects the infinitives soar and brave. 6 And connects brave 
and bathe. 7 To bind limits chain. 8 P. 62, 1. ? What does 
blazing limit ? 



204 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

To heaven their bald and blackened cliffs, and bow 
Their tall heads to the plain ; new empires rise 
Gathering the strength of hoary centuries ; 
And rush down like the Alpine avalanche, 
Startling the nations ; and the very stars 1 — 
Yon bright and burning blazonry of God — 
Glitter awhile in their eternal depths, 
And, like* the Pleiad, loveliest of their train, 
Shoot from their glorious spheres, and pass away, 
To darkle in the trackless void. 
12. Yet Time- 
Time, the tomb-builder — holds his fierce career, 
Dark, stern, all-pitiless, and pauses not 
Amid the mighty wrecks that strew his path, 
To sit and muse, like other conquerors, 
Upon 3 the fearful ruin he has wrought. 

1 What word is in apposition with stars ? * Like connects Pleiad 
to shoot. 3 Upon connects its phrase to muse. 



ANALYSIS OF SHE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 205 



COUESE OF TIME. 

JiOOK IV. 
THE Lf ST OF POWER. 

1 "The world had 1 much of strange and won- 
derful : 
In passion much, ri action, reason, will ; 
And much in Providence, which 2 still retired 
From human eye, and 3 led philosophy, 
5 That 2 ill fier Ignc/ance* liked to own, 5 through 8 
dark 
And dangerous paths of speculation wild. 
Some striking features, as 7 we pass, we mark, 8 
In order such* as memory suggests. 

" One passion prominent appears : 10 the lust 11 
10 Of power, which oft-times took the fairer name 
Of liberty, and hung the popular flag 
Of freedom out. Many, 12 indeed, its names : 



1 Page 79, No. 3. 2 P. 46, 45. Which connects its sentence to 
much. 3 P. 2*7, 31. 4 P. 160. (a.) & P. 86. (&.) 6 Through 
connects its phrase to led. 7 P. 30, 40. 8 We mark features is the 
indep. sentence.. * 9 P. 132 id.) As is the object of suggests. 
10 P. 80, 6. n P. 114, 11. 12 Supply a verb. 



206 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

When 13 on the throne it sat, and 1 * round the neck 

Of millions riveted its iron chain, 
15 And 14 on the shoulders of the people laid 

Burdens unmerciful, it title took 

Of tyranny, oppression, despotism ; 

And every tongue was weary cursing it. 

When 18 in the multitude it gathered strength, 
20 And, 16 like an ocean 17 bursting from its bounds, 

Long beat 18 in vain, went forth resistlessly, 

It bore the stamp and designation, then, 

Of popular fury, anarchy, rebellion ; 

And honest men bewailed all order 19 void* 19 
25 All laws 20 annulled ; 20 all property 20 destroyed ; a0 

The venerable 20 murdered 20 in the streets; 

The wise 80 despised; 20 streams red 19 with human 
blood ; 

Harvests 20 beneath the frantic foot trode 20 down ; 
Lands 19 desolate ; 19 and famine* 1 at the door. 
SO " These are a part ; but other names it had, 
Innumerous 22 as the shapes and robes it wore ; 
But under every name, in nature still 



When connects its sentence to took. u p. 28, 34. 16 When 
connects its sentence to bore. 16 R 28, 34. 17 P. 166 10. 18 Beat 
is a participle— an adnom. word limiting bounds ; it is a perf. passive 
partitiple used instead of beaten. 19 P. QS y (IT.) 20 Tn thig cage the 
object is composed of a noun and participle. 21 Here the object is a 
noun and the adnom. phrase at door. « Innumerous qualifies names. 
Supply a verb with shapes, and a relative pronoun— object of wore— 
before it. 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 207 

Invariably the same, and always bad. 
We own, 24 indeed, that oft against itself 

35 It fought, and sceptre" both 5 " and people" gave 
An equal aid, 25 as 27 long exemplified 
In Albion's isle — Albion, queen 28 of the seas — 
And 29 in the struggle, something like a kind 
Of civil liberty grew up, the best 30 

40 Of mere terrestrial root ; but 31 sickly, 30 too, 
And 31 living 30 only— strange 32 to tell !— in strife 
Of factions equally contending; dead, 80 
That very moment 33 dead, 30 that 34 one prevailed. 
" Conflicting 35 cruelly against itself, 

45 By its own hand it fell ; part slaying part. 
And men who noticed not the suicide, 
Stood wondering 36 much why earth, from age to 

age, 
Was still enslaved, and 37 erring causes gave. 
" This was earth's liberty, its nature this, 

50 However named, in whomsoever found — 



24 P. 71, 20. 25 P. 67, 17 (I.) Scepter and people are the indirect 
objects of gave, while aid is the direct object. 26 Both qualifies the 
nouns scepter and people. 27 Supply it was, after as. 29 P. 163, 2. 
89 And connects the sentence it fought and something grew; both 
sentences are nominal. 30 Best, sickly, living, and dead, are adnom. 
words limiting liberty. 31 P. 27, 29. 32 Strange is an adnom. 
word qualifying the whole clause " living only in strife of factions 
equally contending." 33 P. 150, 75. 34 That connects the follow- 
ing sentence to moment. 35 Conflicting limits it. 36 P. 121, 37. 
37 P. 28, 35. 



208 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

And found it was in all of woman born — 

Each, man to make 38 all subject to bis will ; 

To make tbem do, 39 undo, 39 eat, 39 drink, 39 stand, 3 * 
move, 89 

Talk, 39 think, 39 and feel, 39 exactly as he chose. 
55 Hence the eternal strife* of brotherhoods, 

Of individuals, families, commonwealths. 

The root from which it grew was pride— -bad 
root 

And bad the fruit 42 it bore. Then wonder* 3 not 

That long the nations from it richly reaped 
60 Oppression, slavery, tyranny, and war ; 

Confusion, desolation, trouble, shame. 

And/* marvelous though it seem, this monster, 
when 

It took the name of slavery, as oft 

It did, had advocates to plead its cause ; 
65 Beings 45 that walked erect, and spoke like men ; 

Of Christian parentage descended, 46 too, 



To make, with its subject man, is in apposition with this ; named 
and found are adnom. words also limiting this ; in whomsoever is an 
adverb, phrase limiting found. 39 P. 10, (IV.) 40 Supply a verb. 
Which connects the sentence it grew to root, and is also the essential 
element of an adverb, phrase connected by from to grew. 42 Supply 
the verb loas with fruit and the connective which or that before it. 
43 What is the subject of wonder ? 44 Monster had advocates is the 
indep. sentence : when and though connect their sentences to had. 
Though it seems marvelous is a neut. sentence. 45 P. 116, 14. 
Beings is in apposition with advocates. 46 Descended and dipped are 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 209 

And dipped 46 in the baptismal font, as sign 

Of dedication to the Prince who bowed 

To death, to set the sin-bound prisoner free." 

FREEDOM AND SLAVERY. 
70 " Unchristian thought ! 47 on what pretence 
soe'er 

Of right inherited, or else acquired ; 

Of loss, or profit, or what plea you name, 

To buy and sell, to barter, whip, and hold 

In chains, a being 48 of celestial make ; 
75 Of kindred form, of kindred faculties ; 

Of kindred feelings, passions, thoughts, desires ; 

Born free, and heir of an immortal hope ; 

Thought 49 villanous, absurd, detestable ! 

Unworthy to be harbored in a fiend ! 
80 And only overreached in wickedness 

By that, birth too of earthly liberty, 

adnom. words limiting beings. 47 Independent by exclamation. 
The infinitives to buy, to sell, to barter, to vjhip, and to hold, are 
phrases in apposition with thought. The adjunct of these infinitivea 
is on pretence ; adjunct of pretence — of right ; adjunct of right — 
inherited or acquired; farther adjunct of pretence, of loss or profit ; 
on must be supplied before plea. The phrase on plea limits the 
above named infinitive. 48 Of make, of form, &c, and also born and 
heir, are adjuncts of being. Make is here a noun. 49 Thought is 
again independent by exclamation. Villanous, absurb, detested, un- 
worthy, and ove/reached are adjuncts of thought; by that limits over- 
reached, that stands for some noun suppressed. Birth here has the 
force of born, and limits that. Which aimed, &c, also limits that. 



50 



210 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Which aimed to make a reasonable man 

By legislation think, and by the sword 

Believe. This was that liberty renowned, 
85 Those equal rights of Greece and Rome, where 
men, 

All but a few, were bought, and sold, and 
scourged, 

And killed, as interest or caprice enjoined ; 

In aftertimes talked 51 of, written of so much, 82 

That most, -by sound and custom led away, 
90 Believed the essence 54 answered 54 to the name. 

Historians on this theme were long and warm. 

Statesmen, drunk 65 with the fumes of vain de- 
bate, 

In lofty swelling phrase, called it perfection ; 

Philosophers its rise, advance, and fall, 
95 Traced carefully ; and poets kindled 56 still, 

As memory brought it up : their lips were 
touched 

With fire, and uttered words that men adored. 

Even he, true bard 57 of Zion, holy man ! 67 

To whom the Bible taught this precious verse, 



60 P. 173, 25. §1 Talked, with its inseparable adjunct of, limits 
rights in the 85th verse. The same is true of written. 52 That 
most believed, &c , qualify much as limited by so. 54 P. 71, 20. 
55 P. 124, 42. 56 P. 79, 4. 57 P. 114, 11. Bard and man are in 
apposition with he. The indep. sentence is he kept harp. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 211 

100 ' He 59 is the freeman whom the truth makes free/ 
By fashion, 60 though 61 by fashion little swayed, 
Scarce kept his harp from Pagan freedom's 
praise. 
The captive prophet, whom 62 Jehovah gave 
The future years, 63 described it best ; when he 

105 Beheld it rise in vision of the night, 

A dreadful beast, and 63 terrible, and 63 strong 
Exceedingly, with mighty iron teeth ; 
And, lo ! it brake in pieces, and devoured 
And stamped the residue beneath its feet ! 

110 True liberty was Christian ; 64 sanctified, 6 " 1 
Baptized, 64 and found in Christian hearts alone 
First-born 6 * of Virtue, daughter 64 of the skies, 
Nursling 64 of truth divine, sister 64 of all 
The graces, meekness, holiness, and love ; 

115 Giving 64 to God, and man, and all below, 
That symptom showed of sensible existence, 
Their due 65 unasked ; fear 66 to whom 66 fear was 

due; 
To all, respect, 66 benevolence, 66 and love : 66 
Companion of religion, where she came, 



59 This line is in apposition with verse. P. 170, 21. 60 Supply 
swayed, limiting fashion. 61 Supply he was after though. 62 P. 67, 
17, (1.) 63 What does and connect? 64 Complement of was and 
adjunct of liberty. 65 Object of giving. 66 P. 171, 23. 



212 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

120 There freedom 68 came; where dwelt, there free- 
dom dwelt ; 
Kuled where she ruled, expired where she ex- 
pired. 

1 He was the freeman whom the truth made 
free,' 
Who, first of all, the bands of Satan broke ; 
Who broke the bands of Sin, and for his soul, 
125 In spite of fools, consulted seriously ; 
In spite of fashion, persevered in good ; 
In spite of wealth or poverty, upright ; 
Who did as reason, not as fancy, bade ; 
Who heard temptation sing, and yet turned not 
130 Aside ; saw Sin bedeck her flowery bed, 

And yet would not go 69 up ; felt at his heart 
The sword unsheathed, yet would not sell the 

truth ; 
Who, having power, had not the will to hurt ; 
Who blushed alike to be, or have a slave ; 
135 Who blushed at naught but sin, feared naught 
but God ; 
Who, finally, in strong integrity 
Of soul, 'midst want, or riches, or disgrace, 



69 Freedom came, freedom dwelt, freedom ruled, and freedom expired, 
are independent sentences. The adjuncts of he, direct and indirect, ex- 
tend from whom in the 122 verse, to peace in the 143. 69 Page 85, 18. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 213 

Uplifted calmly sat, and heard the waves 
Of stormy folly breaking at his feet, 
140 Now shrill 70 with praise, now hoarse 70 with foul 
reproach, 
And both despised sincerely ; seeking this 
Alone — the approbation of his God, 
Which still with conscience witnessed to his 
peace. 
This, this is freedom, such as 71 angels use, 
145 And kindred to the liberty of God. 

First-born of Virtue ! daughter of the skies ! 
The man, the state 72 in which she ruled, was 

free ; 
All else 73 were slaves of Satan, Sin, and Death. 

THE HUMAN HEART. 

Already thou hast something heard of good 
150 And ill, of vice and virtue, perfect each ; 

Of those redeemed, or else abandoned quite ; 

And more shalt hear, when, at the judgment- 
day, 

The characters of mankind we review. 

Seems aught 74 which thou hast heard astonish- 
ing? 

70 Adjunct of waves. 71 P. 132. (d.) As is the object of use. 
72 P. 163, 2. 73 Else is subject of were. 74 Aught seems astonishing 
is a neuter sentence. 



214 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

155 A greater wonder 75 now thy audience asks; 

Phenomenon 76 in all the universe 

Of moral being, most anomalous ; 

Inexplicable most, and wonderful. 

I'll introduce thee to a single heart 
160 A human heart : we enter not the worst, 

But one by God's renewing Spirit touched, 

A Christian heart, awaked from sleep of sin. 

What seest thou here ? what mark'st ? (ob- 
serve it well) 

Will, 78 passion, reason, hopes, fears, joy, distress, 
165 Peace, turbulence, simplicity, deceit, 

Good, ill, corruption, immortality ; 

A temple of the Holy Ghost, and yet 

Oft lodging fiends ; the dwelling-place of all 

The heavenly virtues — charity and truth, 
170 Humility, and holiness, and love ; 

And yet the common haunt of anger, pride, 

Hatred, revenge, and passions foul with lust ; 
# * x # x * 

A soldier listed in Messiah's band, 



15 Wonder is subject of asks. 76 Phenomenon is in apposition 
with wonder. What is the object of seest and tnarh'st. 78 The full 
construction would be thou seest will, passion, reason, hopes, fears, 
joy, distress, peace, turbulence, simplicity, deceit, good, ill, corruption, 
immortality. Temple, dwelling-place, and haunt, are also objects of 
seest, understood. Soldier, heir, and emblem, are in the same con- 
struction with will, passion, &c, &c. 



ANALYSTS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 215 

175 Yet 80 giving 81 quarter to Abaddon's troops ; 
With seraphs drinking 81 from the well of life, 
And yet 82 carousing 81 in the cup of death ; 
An heir of heaven, and walking thitherward, 
Yet casting back a covetous eye on ea^th : 

180 Emblem of strength and weakness ; loving 81 now, 
And now abhorring 81 sin ; indulging 81 now, 
And now repenting* 1 sore ; rejoicing 81 now 
With joy unspeakable, and full of glory, 
Now weeping 81 bitterly, and clothed 83 in dust : 

185 A man willing 81 to do, and doing 81 not ; 

Doing, 81 and willing 81 not ; embracing, 81 what 84 
He hates ; what 84 most he loves, abandoning j 86 
Half saint, 86 and sinner 66 half; half life, half 

death ; 
Commixture 86 strange of heaven, and earth, and 
hell." 

THE CHRISTIAN'S CONTEST. 

190 What seest thou here? what mark'st? A 
battle-field : 
Two banners 89 spread, two dreadful fronts 88 of 
war 



80 P. 27, 29. 81 P. 166, 10. 82 P. 173, 26. 83 P. 167, 13. 
84 P. 66, 16. (c.) 85 P. 162. (c.) 86 In apposition, with man. 
89 The full construction would be, Thou seest a battle-field, ban- 
ners, &e. 



216 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

In shock of opposition fierce engaged : 

(rod, angels, saw whole empires rise in arms; 

Saw kings exalted ; heard them tumbled 90 dow r n, 
195 And others raised ; and heeded not: but here 

God, angels, looked : God, angels, fought : and 
Hell, 

With all his legions, 51 fought : here error fought 

With truth; with darkness, light; 92 and life 92 
with death. 

And here not kingdoms, reputations, worlds, 
200 Were won : the strife was for eternity ; 93 

The victory was never-ending bliss ; 

The badge, a chaplet from the tree of life. 

While thus, within, contending armies 
strove, 

Without, 94 the Christian had 95 his troubles too : 
205 For, as by God's unalterable laws, 

And ceremonial of the heaven of heavens, 

Virtue takes place of all, and worthiest deeds 

Sit highest at the feet of bliss ; on earth 



90 P. 69, 19, (a.) 91 With legions is an adnom. phrase qualifying 
Hell. 92 Life and light are subjects of fought y understood. M For 
eternity is a phrase comp. of the neut. verb was. 94 Without is the con- 
nective of a phrase whose essential element is suppressed. It may be 
called an adverb, word. 95 Had is limited by for opposite was rule. 
This sentence is limited by as virtue takes place ; in all such cases the 
verb is considered the representative of the sentence, and the adjunct 
is called adverbial. By laws and by ceremonial are adjuncts of takes. 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 217 

The opposite was fashion's rule polite. 

210 Virtue the lowest place at table took, 

Or served, or was shut out : the Christian still 
Was mocked, derided, persecuted, slain : 
And slander, worse than mockery, or sword, 
Or death, stood nightly by her horrid forge, 
And fabricated lies to stain his name 
And wound his peace. But still he had a source 
Of happiness, that men could neither give 
Nor take away : the avenues that led 
To immortality before him lay : 

220 He saw, with faith's far-reaching eye, the fount 

Of life, bis Father's house, his Savior God, 

And borrowed thence to help his present want. 
* # # # •* * 

Virtue grew daily stronger/ 8 sin 
Decayed ; his enemies, 97 repulsed, retired ; 
225 Till at the stature of a perfect man 

In Christ arrived, 98 and, with the Spirit filled, 
He gained the harbor of eternal rest 



96 Stronger qualifies virtue, 97 Enemies retired is the sentence, 
and repulsed limits the subject. 98 Arrived and filled limit the sub- 
ject of the sentence he gained harbor. 



218 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

VIRTUE IMPERFECT. 

But think" not virtue, else than 100 dwells in God 

Essentially, was perfect, without spot. 

230 Examine yonder suns : at distance seen, 

How bright they burn ! how gloriously they 

shine, 
Mantling the worlds around in beamy light ! 

But nearer viewed, we through their luster see 

Some dark behind : so virtue was on earth, 

235 So is in heaven, and so shall always be. 
Though good it seem, immaculate, and fair 
Exceedingly, to saint or angel's gaze, 
The uncreated Eye, that searches all, 
Sees it imperfect : sees, but blames not ; sees, 

240 Well pleased ; and best with those who deepest 
dive 
Into themselves, and know themselves the 101 most 
Taught thence in humbler reverence to bow 
Before the Holy One ; and oftener view 
His excellence, that in them still may rise, 

245 And grow, his likeness, 102 growing evermore. 
Nor think" that any, born of Adam's race, 
In his own proper virtue entered heaven. 
Once fallen from God and perfect holiness, 

99 P. '71, 20. l00 Than is subject of dwells. m The qualifies 
the adverb most. i02 Likeness is subject of may. 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 219 

No being, unassisted, e'er could rise, 

250 Or sanctify the sin-polluted soul. 

Oft was the trial made ; but vainly made : 
So oft as men, in earth's best livery clad, 
However fair, approached the gates of heaven, 
And stood presented to the eye of God, 

255 Their impious pride so oft 103 his soul abhorred. 
Vain hope ! in patch-work of terrestrial grain, 
To be received into the courts above; 
As vain, as towards yonder suns to soar 
On wing of waxen plumage, melting soon. 

REDEEMING LOVE. 

260 Look round, and see those numbers infinite, 
That stand before the throne, and in their 

hands 
Palms waving 10 * high, as token of victory . 
For battles won : these are the sons of men 
Eedeemed, the ransomed of the Lamb of God: 

265 All these, and millions more of kindred blood, 
Who are now out on messages of love — 
All these — their virtue, beauty, excellence, 
And joy — are purchase of redeeming blood ; 
Their glory, bounty of redeeming love. 

270 u O love 105 divine!— harp, 106 lift thy voice on high!" 



103 So oft is redundant. 10s Independent by exclamation. 106 In- 
dependent by address. 



220 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Shout, angels ! shout aloud, ye sons 107 of men ! 
And burn, my heart, 107 with the eternal flame ! 
My lyre, 107 be eloquent with endless praise ! — 
O love divine ! immeasurable love ! 
275 Stooping 108 from heaven to earth, from earth to 

hell, 
Without beginning, 109 endless, boundless love ! 
Above all asking, giving 108 far, to those 
Who naught deserved, who naught deserved but 

death ! 
Saving 108 the vilest ! saving 108 me ! — love 
280 Divine ! Savior God ! Lamb, once slain ! 

At thought of thee, thy love, thy flowing blood, 
All thoughts decay; all things remembered, 

fade ; 
All hopes return ; all actions done by men 
Or angels, disappear, absorbed and lost ; 
285 All fly, 110 as from the great white Throne, which 

he, 
The prophet, saw, in vision wrapped ; m the 

heavens 
And earth, and sun, and moon, and starry host 
Confounded 111 fled, and found a place no more. 



107 Independent by address. 108 Adnom. word, adjunct of love. 

109 Adnom. phrase, adjunct of love. uo The construction here is as fol- 
lows : '* All fly as the heavens and earth and sun and moon and starry host^ 
confounded, fled jrom the great white throne which" &c. U1 P. 124, 42. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 221 



WINTER 



The Argumemt. — The Subject proposed. — Address to the Earl of Wil- 
mington. — First approach of Winter. — According to the natural 
course of the season, various storms described. — Rain. — Wind. — ■ 
Snow. — The driving of the Snows ; a man perishing among them ; 
whence reflections on the wants and miseries of human life. — The 
wolves descending from the Alps and Apennines. — A Winter evening 
described ; as spent by philosophers ; by the country people ; in the 
city. — Frost. — A view of Winter within the polar circle. — A thaw. — 
The whole concluding with moral reflections on a future state, 

See ! "Winter comes to rule the varied year, 

Sullen and sad, with all his rising train ; 

Vapors, and clouds, and storms. Be these my 

theme ; 
These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought, 
5 And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms, 
Congenial horrors, hail ! With frequent foot, 
Pleased have I, in my cheerful morn of life, 
When nursed by careless solitude I lived, 
And sung of Nature with unceasing joy, 
10 Pleased have I wandered through your rough 

domain ; 
Trod the pure virgin-snows, myself as pure ; 
Heard the winds roar, and the big torrent burst ; 
Or seen the deep-fermenting tempest brew'd, 



222 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

In the grim evening sky. Thus pass'd the time, 
15 Till through the lucid chambers of the south 

Look'd out the joyous Spring, look'd out and 
smiled. 

ADDRESS TO THE EARL OF WILMINGTON. 

To thee, the patron of her first essay, 
The Muse, Wilmington ! renews her song. 
Since has she rounded the revolving year ; 

20 Skimmed the gay Spring ; on eagle pinions 
borne, 
Attempted through the summer blaze to rise ; 
Then swept o'er Autumn with the shadowy gale ; 
And now among the wintry clouds again 
Roll'd in the doubling storm, she tries to soar ; 

25 To swell her note with all the rushing winds ; 
To suit her sounding cadence to the floods. 
As is her theme, her numbers wildly great : 
Thrice happy could she fill thy judging year 
With bold description and with manly thought. 

30 Nor art thou skill'd in awful schemes alone t 
And how to make a mighty people thrive ; ' 
But equal goodness, sound integrity, 
A firm unshaken, uncorrupted soul 
Amid a sliding age, and burning strong 

35 (Not vainly blazing) for thy country's weal, 
A steady spirit regularly free : 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 223 

These, each exalting each, the statesman light 
Into the patriot ; these, the public hope 
And eye to thee converting, bid the Muse 
40 Eecord what envy dares not flattery call. 

THE FIRST APPROACH OF WINTER. 

Now when the cheerless empire of the sky 
To Capricorn the Centaur Archer yields, 
And fierce Aquarius stains th' inverted year ; 
Hung o'er. the furthest verge of heaven, the sun 

45 Scarce spreads through ether the dejected day, 
Faint are his gleams, and ineffectual shoot 
His struggling rays in horizontal lines, 
Through the thick air ; as clothed in cloudy 

storm, 
Weak, wan, and broad, he skirts the southern 
sky; 

50 And, soon descending, to the long dark night, 
Wide shading all, the prostrate world resigns. 
Nor is the light unwish'd ; while vital heat, 
Light, life, and joy the dubious day forsake. 
Meantime, in sable cincture, shadows vast, 

55 Deep-tinged and damp, and congregated clouds, 

And all the vapory turbulence of heaven, 

Involve the face of things. Thus Winter falls, 

A heavy gloom, oppressive o'er the world, 

Through Nature shedding influence malign, 
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224 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

60 And rouses up the seeds of dark disease. 
The soul of man dies in him, loathing life, 
And black with more than melancholy views. 
The cattle droop ; and o'er the furrow ; d land, 
Fresh from the plough, the dun discolored flocks, 

b5 Untended spreading, crop the wholesome root. 
Along the woods, along the moorish fens, 
Sighs the sad genius of the coming storm ; 
And up among the loose disjointed cliffs, 
And fractured mountains wild, the brawling 
brook 

70 And cave presageful, send a hollow moan, 
Resounding long in listening Fancy's ear. 

CHEERLESS RAIN-STORM 

Then comes the father of the tempest forth, 
Wrapp'd in black glooms. First, joyless rains 

obscure 
Drive through the mingling skies with vapor 

foul; 
75 Dash on the mountain's brow, and shake the 

woods, 
That grumbling wave below. Th' unsightly plain 
Lies a brown deluge ; as the low bent clouds 
Pour flood on flood, yet unexhausted, still 
Combine, and deepening into night, shut up 
30 The day's fair face. The wanderers of heaven, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 225 

Each to his home, retire ; save those that love 
To take their pastime in the troubled air, 
Or skimming flutter round the dimply pool. 
The cattle from the untasted fields return, 
85 And ask, with meaning low, their wonted stalls : 
Or ruminate in the contiguous shade. 
Thither the household, feathery people crowd, 
The crested cock, with all his female train, 
Pensive, and dripping ! while the cottage hind 
90 Hangs o'er th' enlivening blaze, and taleful 
there 
Recounts his simple frolic. Much he talks, 
And much he laughs, nor recks the storm that 
Without, and rattles on his humble roof, [blows 
Wide o'er the brim, with many a torrent 
swell'd, 
95 And the mix'd ruin of its banks o'erspread, 
At last the roused-up river pours along. 
Eesistless, roaring, dreadful, down it comes, 
From the rude mountain and the mossy wild. 
Tumbling through rocks abrupt, and sounding 
far ; 
100 Then o'er the sanded valley floating spreads, 
Calm, sluggish, silent ; till again, constraint 
Between two meeting hills, it bursts away, 
Where rocks and woods o'erhang the turbid 
stream ; 



226 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

There gathering triple force, rapid and deep, 
105 It boils, and wheels, and foams, and thunders 
through. 

WINTER TEMPESTS. 

Nature ! great parent ! whose unceasing hand 
Eolls round the seasons of the changeful year, 
How mighty, how majestic are thy works ! • 
With what a pleasing dread they swell the soul ! 

110 That sees astonish'd ! and astonished sings ! 
Ye too, ye winds ! that now begin to blow 
With boisterous sweep, I raise my voice to you. 
Where are your stores, ye powerful beings! say, 
Where your aerial magazines reserved, 

115 To swell the brooding terrors of the storm ? 
In what far distant region of the sky, 
Hush'd in deep silence, sleep ye when 'tis calm? 

When from the pallid sky the sun descends, 
With many a spot that o'er his glaring orb 

120 Uncertain wanders, stain'd ; red, fiery streaks 
Begin to flush around. The reeling clouds 
Stagger with dizzy poise, as doubting yet 
Which master to obey; while rising slow, 
Blank, in the leaden-color'd east, the moon 

125 Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. 
Seen through the turbid fluctuating air, 
The stars obtuse emit a shiver'd ray ; 



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Or frequent seem to shoot athwart the gloom, 
And long behind them trail the whitening blaze. 

130 Snatch'd in short eddies, plays the wither'd leaf ; 
And on the flood the dancing feather floats. 
With broaden'd nostrils to the sky upturn'd, 
The conscious heifer snuffs the stormy gale. 
E'en as the matron, at her nightly task, 

135 With pensive labor draws the flaxen thread, 
The wasted taper and the crackling flame 
Foretell the blast. But chief the plumy race, 
The tenants of the sky, its changes speak. 
Retiring from the downs, where all day long 

140 They pick'd their scanty fare, a blackening train 
Of clamorous rooks thick urge their weary flight, 
And seek the closing shelter of the grove. 
Assiduous, in his bower, the wailing owl 
Plies his sad song. The cormorant on high 

145 Wheels from the deep, and screams along the 
land. 
Loud shrieks the soaring hern ; and with wild 

wing 
The circling sea-fowl cleave the flaky clouds. 
Ocean, unequal press 'd, with broken tide 
And blind commotion heaves ; while from the 
shore 

150 Eat into caverns by the restless wave, 

And forest-rustling mountain, comes a voice 



228 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE, 

That solemn soundiDg bids the world prepare. 
Then issues forth the storm with sudden burst, 
And hurls the whole precipitated air 
155 Down, in a torrent. On the passive main 

Descends the ethereal force, and with strong' 

gust 
Turns from its bottom the discolored deep. 
Through the black night that sits immense 

around, 
Lash'd into foam, the fierce conflicting brine 
160 Seems o'er a thousand raging waves to burn. 
Meantime the mountain billows, to the clouds 
In dreadful tumult s weird, surge above surge, 
Burst into chaos with tremendous roar, 
And anchored navies from their stations drive, 
165 Wild as the winds across the howling waste 
Of mighty waters. Now th' inflated wave 
Straining they scale, and now impetuous shoot 
Into the secret chambers of the deep, 
The wintry Baltic thundering o'er their head. 
170 Emerging thence again, before the breath 

Of full-exerted heaven, they wing their course, 
And dart on distant coasts ; if some sharp rock 
Or shoal insidious break not their career, 
And in loose fragments fling them floating 
round. 
175 Nor less at land the loosen'd tempest reigns. 






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The mountain thunders ; and its sturdy sons 

Stoop to the bottom of the rocks they shade. 

Lone on the midnight steep, and all aghast, 

The dark wayfaring stranger breathless toils, 
180 And, often falling, climbs against the blast. 

Low waves the rooted forest, vex'd, and sheds 

What of its tarnish'd honors yet remain ; 

Dash'd down, and scattered by the tearing wind's 

Assiduous fury, its gigantic limbs. 
185 Thus struggling through the dissipated grove, 

The whirling tempest raves along the plain ; 

And on the cottage thatch'd, or lordly roof, 

Keen fastening, shakes them to the solid base. 

Sleep frighted flies ; and round the rocking 
dome, 
190 For entrance eager, howls the savage blast. 

Then, too, they say, through all the burden'd 
air, 

Long groans are heard, shrill sounds, and distant 
sighs, 

That, utter'd by the Demon of the night, 

Warn the devoted wretch of woe and death. 
195 Huge uproar lords it wide. The clouds com- 
mix'd 

With stars swift gliding sweep along the sky. 

All nature reels. Till Nature's King, who oft 

Amid tempestuous darkness dwells alone, 



230 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

And on the wings of the careering wind 
200 Walks dreadfully serene, commands a calm ; 

Then, straight, air, sea, and earth' are hush'd at 
once. 
As yet 'tis midnight deep. The weary clouds, 

Slow meeting, mingle into solid gloom. 

Now, while the drowsy world lies lost in sleep, 
205 Let me associate with the serious Night, 

And Contemplation, her sedate compeer ; 

Let me shake off th 7 intrusive cares of day, 

And lay the meddling senses all aside. 
Where now, ye lying vanities of life ! 
210 Ye ever tempting, ever cheating train 1 

Where are you now? and what is your amount? 

Vexation, disappointment, and remorse ; 

Sad, sickening thought ! and yet, deluded man, 

A scene of crude disjointed visions past, 
215 And broken si umbers, .rises still resolved, 

With new-flush'd hopes to run the giddy round. 
Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! 

O, teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! 

Save me from folly, vanit}^, and vice, 
220 From every low pursuit ! and feed my soul 

With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue 
pure ; 

Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss ! 



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SNOW MANTLES THE EARTH : DISTURBS THE COMFORT 

OF ANIMALS. 

The keener tempests rise ; and faming dun 
From all the livid east, or piercing north, 

225 Thick clouds ascend ; in whose capacious womb 
A vapory deluge lies, to snow congeal'd. 
Heavy they roll their fleecy world along, 
And the sky saddens with the gather'd storm. 
Through the hush'd air the whitening shower 
descends, 

230 At first thin wavering ; till at last the flakes 
Fall broad and wide and fast, dimming the day 
With a continual flow. The cherish'd fields 
Put on their winter robe of purest white. 
'Tis brightness all ; save where the new snow 
melts 

235 Along the mazy current. Low the woods 

Bow their hoar head ; and ere the languid sun 
Faint from the west emits his evening ray, 
Earth's universal face, deep hid, and chill, 
Is one wild dazzling waste, that buries wide 

240 The works of man. Drooping, the laborer-ox 
Stands covered o'er with snow, and then de« 

mand 
The fruit of all his toil. The fowls of heaven, 
Tamed by the cruel season, crowd around 



232 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The winnowing store, and claim the little boon 

245 Which Providence assigns them. One alone, 
The red-breast, sacred to the household gods, 
Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, 
In joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves 
His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man 

250 His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 

Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights 
On the warm hearth ; then, hopping o'er the 

floor, 
Eyes all the smiling family askance, 
And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is ; 

255 Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs 
Attract his slender feet. The foodless wilds 
Pour forth their brown inhabitants. The hare, 
Though timorous of heart, and hard beset 
By death in various forms, dark snares, and" dogs, 

260 And more unpitying men, the garden seeks, 
Urged on by fearless want. The bleating kind 
Eye the bleak heaven, and next the glistening 

earth, 
With looks of dumb despair ; then, sad dis- 
persed, 
Dig for the wither'd herb through heaps of snow. 

265 Now, shepherds, to your helpless charge ba 
kind ; 
Baffle the raging year, and fill their pens 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 233 

With food at will ; lodge them below the storm, 
And watch them strict : for from the bellowing 

east, 
In this dire season, oft the whirlwind's wing 

270 Sweeps up the burden of whole wintry plains 
At one wide waft, and o'er the hapless flocks, 
Hid in the hollow of two neighboring hills, 
The billowy tempest whelms; till, upward 

urged, 
The valley to a shining mountain swells, 

275 Tipp'd with a wreath high curling in the sky. 

THE COTTAGER PERISHING IN A SNOW-STORM. 

As thus the snows arise ; and foul and fierce, 
All Winter drives along the darken'd air ; 
In his own loose revolving fields, the swain 
Disaster'd stands ; sees other hills ascend, 

280 Of unknowm joyless brow ; and other scenes 
Of horrid prospect, shag the trackless plain : 
Nor finds the river, nor the forest hid 
Beneath the formless wild ; but wanders on 
From hill to dale, still more and more astray ; 

285 Impatient flouncing through the drifted heaps. 
Stung with the thoughts of home, the thought3 

of home 
Eush on his nerves, and call their vigor forth 
In many a vain attempt. How sinks his soul ! 






234 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

What black despair, what horror fills his heart I 

290 When for the dusky spot, which fancy feign'd 
His tufted cottage rising through the snow, 
He meets the roughness of the middle waste, 
Far from the track and bless'd abode of man ! 
While round him night resistless closes fast, 

295 And every tempest, howling o'er his head, 
Renders the savage wilderness more wild. 
Then throng the busy shapes into his mind 
Of covered pits, unfathomably deep, 
A dire descent ! beyond the power of frost I* 

300 Of faithless bogs ; of precipices huge, 

Smoothed up with snow ; and, what is land, 

unknown, 
What water, of the still unfrozen spring, 
In the loose marsh or solitary lake, 
Where the fresh fountain from the bottom boils. 

305 These check his fearful steps ; and down he sinks 
Beneath the shelter of the shapeless drift, 
Thinking o'er all the bitterness of death, 
Mix'd with the tender anguish Nature shoots 
Through, the wrung bosom of the dying man, 

310 His wife, his children, and his friends unseen. 
In vain for him th 5 officious wife prepares 
The fire fair-blazing, and the vestment warm ; 
In vain his little children, peeping out 
Into the mingling storm, demand their sire, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 235 

315 With tears of artless innocence. Alas ! 

Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, 
Nor friends, nor sacred home. On every nerve 
The deadly Winter seizes ; shuts up sense ; 
And o'er his inmost vitals creeping cold, 

320 Lays him along the snows, a stiffen'd corse, 

Stretch 'd out, and bleaching in the northern 
blast. 

REFLECTIONS ON HUMAN POVERTY AND WRETCH- 
EDNESS. 

Ah ! little think the gay, licentious proud, 
Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround ; 
They who their thoughtless hours in giddy 
mirth, 

325 And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ; 

Ah ! little think they, while they dance along, 
How many feel, this very moment, death, 
And all the sad variety of pain : 
How many sink in the devouring flood, 

330 Or more devouring flame ; how many bleed, 
By shameful variance betwixt man and man : 
How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms ; 
Shut from the common air, and common use 
Of their own limbs : how many drink the cup 

335 Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread 
Of misery: sore pierced by wintry winds, 



236 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

How many shrink into the sordid hut 
Of cheerless poverty : how many shake 
With all the fiercer tortures of the mind, 

340 Unbounded passion, madness, guilt, remorse ; 

Whence tumbled headlong from the height of 

life, 
They furnish matter for the tragic Muse : 
E'en in the vale, where Wisdom loves to dwell, 
With Friendship, Peace, and Contemplation 
join'd, 

345 How many, rack'd with honest passions, droop 
In deep retired distress : how many stand 
Around the death-bed of their dearest friends, 
And point the parting anguish. Thought fond 

man 
Of these, and all the thousand nameless ills, 

350 That one incessant struggle render life, 
One scene of toil, of suffering, and of fate ; 
Vice in his high career would stand appall'd, 
And heedless, rambling Impulse learn to think ; 
The conscious heart of Charity would warm, 

355 And her wide wish, Benevolence dilate ; 
The social tear would rise, the social sigh ; 
And into clear perfection, gradual bliss, 
Eefining still, the social passions work. 



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CRUELTIES OF A BRITISH PRISON IN THE EIGHTEENTH 

CENTURY. 

And here can I forget the generous band, 
360 Who, touch'd with human woe, redressive 
search'd 

Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ; 

Unpitied, and unheard, where Misery moans ; 

Where Sickness pines ; where Thirst and Hunger 
burn, 

And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice ? 
365 While in the land of Liberty, the land 

Whose every street and public meeting glow 

With open freedom, little tyrants raged ; 

Snatch'd the lean morsel from the starving 
mouth ; 

Tore from cold wintry limbs the tatter'd weed ; 
370 E'en robVd them of the last of comforts, sleep : 

The freeborn Briton to the dungeon chain'd, 

Or, as the lust of cruelty prevail'd, 

At pleasure mark'd him with inglorious stripes ; 

And crush'd out lives, by secret barbarous ways, 
375 That for their country would have toil'd or 
bled. 

great design ! if executed well, 

With patient care, and wisdom-temper'd zeal. 

Ye sons of Mercy ! yet resume the search ; 

Drag forth the regal monsters into light. 



238 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

380 Wrench from their hands Oppression's iron rod, 
And bid the cruel feel the pains they give. 
Much still untouched remains ; in this rank age, 
Much is the patriot's weeding hand required. 
The toils of law, (what dark insidious men 

385 Have cumbrous added to perplex the truth, 
And lengthen simple justice into trade,) 
How glorious were the day that saw these broken 
And every man within the reach of right ! 

WOLVES DESCENDING FROM THE ALPS AND APEN' 

NINES. 

By wintry famine roused, from all the tract 
390 Of horrid mountains, which the shining Alps, 
And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, 
Branch out stupendous into distant lands ; 
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! 
Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! 
395 Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; 
And, pouring o'er the country, bear along 
Keen as the north-wind sweeps the glossy snow. 
All is their prize. They fasten on the steed, 
Press him to earth, and pierce his mighty heart. 
400 Nor can the bull his awful front defend, 
Or shake the murdering savages away. 
Eapacious, at the mother's throat they fly, 
And tear the screaming infant from her breast. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 239 

The godlike face of man avails him naught. 
405 E'en beauty, force divine ! at whose bright 
glance 
The generous lion stands in soften'd gaze, 
Here bleeds, a hapless, undistinguish'd prey. 
But if, apprised of the severe attack, 
The country be shut up, lured by the scent, 
410 On churchyards drear (inhuman to relate !) 
The disappointed prowlers fall, and dig 
The shrouded body from the grave ; o'er which 
Mix'd with foul shades and frighted ghosts, they 
howl. 

Among those hilly regions, where embraced 
415 In peaceful vales the happy Grisons dwell ; 
Oft, rushing sudden from the loaded cliffs, 
Mountains of snow their gathering terrors roll ; 
From steep to steep, loud thundering down they 

come, 
A wintry waste, in dire commotion all ; 
420 And herds, and flocks, and travellers, and 
swains, 
And sometimes whole brigades of marching 

troops, 
Or hamlets sleeping in the dead of night, 
Are deep between the smothering ruin whelm'd. 
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240 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

THE MIGHTY DEAD OF GREECE 

Now, all amid the rigors of the year, 

425 In the wild depth of Winter, while without 
The ceaseless winds blow ice, be my retreat 
Between the groaning forest and the shore, 
Beat by the boundless multitude of waves, 
A rural, sheltered solitary scene ; 

430 Where ruddy fire and beaming tapers join 

To cheer the gloom. There studious let me sit, 
And hold high converse with the mighty dead ; 
Sages of ancient time, as gods revered, 
As gods beneficent, who bless'd mankind 

435 With arts, with arms, and humanized a world. 
Eoused at the inspiring thought, I throw aside 
The long-lived volume ; and, deep musing, hail 
The sacred shades, that slowly rising pass 
Before my wondering eyes. First Socrates, 

440 Who, firmly good in a corrupted state, 
Against the rage of tyrants single stood, 
Invincible ! calm reason's holy law, 
That Voice of God within th' attentive mind, 
Obeying, fearless, or in life or death : 

445 Great moral teacher ! wisest of mankind ! 
Solon the next, who built his commonweal 
On equity's wide base ; by tender laws 
A lively people curbing yet undamp'd, 
Preserving still that quick peculiar fire, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 241 

450 Whence in the laurel'd field of finer arts, 
And of bold freedom, they unequall'd shone ; 
The pride of smiling Greece and humankind. 
Lycurgus then, who bow'd beneath the force 
Of strictest discipline, severely wise, 

455 All human passions. Following him I see, 
As at Thermopylae he glorious fell, 
The firm devoted Chief, who proved by deeds 
The hardest lesson which the other taught. 
Then Aristides lifts his honest front ; 

460 Spotless of heart, to whom th' unflattering voice 
Of freedom gave the noblest name of Just; 
In pure majestic poverty revered ; 
Who, e'en his glory to his country's weal 
Submitting, swell 'd a haughty Rival's fame. 

465 Rear'd by his care, of softer ray appears 

Cimon sweet-soul'd ; whose genius, rising strong, 
Shook off the load of young debauch ; abroad, 
The scourge of Persian pride ; at home, the 

friend 
Of every worth and every splendid art ; 

470 Modest and simple in the pomp of wealth. 
Then the last worthies of declining Greece, 
Late caird to glory, in unequal times, 
Pensive appear. The fair Corinthian boast, 
Timoleon, happy temper ! mild and firm, 

475 Who wept the brother while the tyrant bled. 



242 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

And, equal to the best, the Theban Pair, 
Whose virtues, in heroic concord join 'd, 
Their country raised to freedom, empire, fame. 
He too, with whom Athenian honor sunk, 

480 And left a mass of sordid lees behind, 
Phocion the Good ; in public life severe, 
To virtue still inexorably firm. 
But when, beneath his low illustrious roof, 
Sweet peace and happy wisdom smooth'd his 
brow, 

485 Not Friendship softer was, nor Love more kind. 
And he, the last of old Lycurgus' sons, 
The generous victim to that vain attempt, 
To save a rotten state, Agis, who saw 
E'en Sparta's self to servile avarice sunk. 

490 The two Achaian heroes close the train : 
Aratus, who awhile relumed the soul 
Of fondly lingering liberty in Greece ; 
And he, her darling as her latest hope, 
The gallant Philopoemen ; who to arms 

495 Turn'd the luxurious pomp he could not cure ; 
Or toiling on his farm, a simple swain ; 
Or, bold and skilful, thundering in the field. 

THE GREAT MEN OF ANCIENT ROME. 

Of rougher front, a mighty people come ! 
A race of heroes ! in those virtuous times 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 243 

500 Which knew no stain, save that with partial 
flame 
Their dearest country they too fondly loved : 
Her better Founder first, the light of Eome, 
Numa, who soften'd her rapacious sons : 
Servius the king, who laid the solid base 

505 On which o'er earth the vast Eepublic spread, 
Then the great Consuls venerable rise : 
The public Father who the private quell'd, 
As on the dread tribunal sternly sad : 
He, whom his thankless country could not lose, 

510 Camillus, only vengeful to her foes : 

Fabricius, scorner of all-conquering gold ; 
And Cincinnatus, awful from the plough ; 
Thy willing victim, Carthage, bursting loose 
From all that pleading Nature could oppose, 

515 From a whole city's tears, by rigid faith 

Imperious call'd, and honor's dire command : 
Scipio, the gentle chief, humanely brave, 
Who soon the race of spotless glory ran, 
And, warm in youth, to the poetic shade, 

520 With friendship and philosophy, retired : 
Tully, whose powerful eloquence a while 
Eestrain'd the rapid fate of rushing Eome: 
Unconquer'd Cato, virtuous in extrene : 
And, thou, unhappy Brutus, kind of heart, 

525 Whose steady arm, by awful virtue urged, 



244 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Lifted the Roman steel against thy friend. 
Thousands besides the tribute of a verse 
Demand; but who can count the stars of heaven? 
Who sing their influence on this lower world ? 

530 Behold, who yonder comes ! in sober state, 
Fair, mild, and strong, as is a vernal sun : 
'Tis Phoebus' self, or else the Mantuan Swain! 
Great Homer too appears, of daring wing, 
Parent of Song ! and equal, by his side, 

535 The British Muse : join'd hand in hand they 
walk, 
Darkling, full up the middle steep to fame. 
Nor absent are those shades, whose skilful touch 
Pathetic drew th 7 impassioned heart, and charm'd 
Transported Athens with the moral scene ; 

540 Nor those, who, tuneful, waked th' enchanting 
lyre. 

First of your kind ! society divine ! 
Still visit thus my nights, for you reserved, 
And mount my soaring soul to thoughts like 

yours. 
Silence, thou lonely power ! the door be thine ; 

545 See on the hallow'd hour that none intrude, 

Save a few chosen friends, who sometimes deign 
To bless my humble roof, with sense refined, 
Learning digested well, exalted faith, 
Unstudied wit, and humor ever gay 



ANALYSTS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 245 

550 Or from the Muses' hill with Pope descend, 
To raise the sacred hour, to bid it smile, 
And with the social spirit warm the heart ? 
For though not sweeter his own Homer sings, 
Yet is his life the more endearing song. 

555 Where art thou, Hammond? thou, the darling 
pride, 
The friend and lover of the tuneful throng ! 
Ah, why, dear youth, in all the blooming prime 
Of vernal genius, where disclosing fast 
Each active worth, each manly virtue lay, 

560 Why wert thou ravished from our hope so soon ? 
What now avails that noble thirst of fame, 
Which stung thy fervent breast ? that treasured 

store 
Of knowledge, early gain'd ? that eager zeal 
To serve thy country, glowing in the band 

565 Of youthful patriots, who sustain her name ? 
What now, alas ! that life-diffusing charm 
Of sprightly wit ? that rapture for the Muse ? 
That heart of friendship, and that soul of joy, 
Which bade with softest light thy virtues smile ? 

570 Ah ! only show'd, to check our fond pursuits, 
And teach our humble hopes that life is vain! 






WINTER EVENING STUDIES AND AMUSEMENTS. 
Thus in some deep retirement would I pass 



246 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

The Winter glooms, with friends of pliant soul, 
Or blithe, or solemn, as the theme inspired : 

575 With them would search, if Nature's boundless 
frame 
Was call'd, late rising from the void of night, 
Or sprung eternal from th' Eternal Mind ; 
Its life, its laws, its progress, and its end. 
Hence larger prospects of the beauteous whole 

580 Would, gradual, open on our opening minds ; 
And each diffusive harmony unite 
In full perfection, to th' astonish'd eye. 
Then would we try to scan the moral world, 
Which, though to us it seems embroil'd, moves 
on 

585 In higher order ; fitted and impell'd 

By Wisdom's finest hand, and issuing all 
In general good. The sage historic Muse 
Should next conduct us through the deeps of 

time ; 
Show us how empire grew, declined, and fell, 

590 In scattered states ; what makes the nations 
smile, 
Improves their soil, and gives them double suns ; 
And why they pine beneath the brightest skies, 
In Nature's richest lap. As thus we talked, 
Our hearts would burn within us ; would inhale 

595 That portion of divinity, that ray 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 247 

Of purest heaven, which lights the public soul 
Of patriots and of heroes. But if doom'd, 
In powerless humble fortune, to repress 
These ardent risings of the kindling soul ; 

600 Then, even superior to ambition, we 

"Would learn the private virtues : how to glide 
Through shades and plains, along the smoothest 

stream 
Of rural life ; or, snatch'd away by hope, 
Through the dim spaces of futurity, 

605 With earnest eye anticipate those scenes 
Of happiness and wonder, where the mind, 
In endless growth and infinite ascent, 
Rises from state to state, and world to world. 
But when with these the serious thought ia 
foil'd, 

610 We, shifting for relief, would play the shapes 
Of frolic fancy ; and incessant form 
Those rapid pictures, that assembled train 
Of fleet ideas, never join'd before, 
Whence lively wit excites to gay surprise ; 

615 Or folly-painting humor, grave himself, 

Calls laughter forth, deep shaking every nerve. 

Meantime the village rouses up the fire ; 

While well attested, and as well believed, 

Heard solemn, goes the goblin story round ; 

620 Till superstitious horror creeps o'er all. 
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248 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Or, frequent in the sounding hall, they wake 
The rural gambol. Eustic mirth goes round ; 
The simple joke that takes the shepherd's heart, 
Easily pleased ; the long loud laugh, sincere ; 
625 The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid, 
On purpose guardless or pretending sleep ; 
The leap, the slap, the haul ; and, shook to 

notes 
Of native music, the respondent dance. 
Thus jocund fleets with them the Winter night. 

WINTER EVENING IN THE CITY. 

*>30 The city swarms intense. The public haunt, 
Fall of each theme, and warm with mix'd dis- 
course. 
Hums indistinct. The sons of riot flow 
Down the loose stream of false enchanted joy 
To swift destruction. On the rankled soul 

635 The gaming fury falls ; and in one gulf 
Of total ruin, honor, virtue, peace, 
Friends, families, and fortune, headlong sink. 
Up springs the dance along the lighted dome, 
Mix'd and evolved a thousand sprightly ways. 

640 The glittering court effuses every pomp ; 

The circle deepens ; bearn'd from gaudy robes, 
Tapers, and sparkling gems, and radiant eyes, 
A soft effulgence o'er the palace waves : 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 249 

While, a gay insect in his summer-shine, 

645 The fop, light-fluttering, spreads his mealy 
wings. 

Dread o'er the scene the ghost of Hamlet 
stalks ; 
Othello rages ; poor Monimia mourns ; 
And Belvidera pours her soul in love. 
Terror alarms the breast. The comely tear 

650 Steals o'er the cheek ; or else the Comic Muse 
Holds to the world a picture of itself, 
And raises sly the fair impartial laugh. 
Sometimes she lifts her strain, and paints the 

scenes 
Of beauteous life; whate'er can deck mankind, 

655 Or charm the heart in generous Bevil show'd. 
Thou, whose wisdom, solid yet refined, 
Whose patriot virtues, and consummate skill 
To touch the finer springs that move the world, 
Join'd to whatever the Graces can bestow, 

660 And all Apollo's animating fire, 

Give thee, with pleasing dignity, to shine 
At once the guardian, ornament, and joy 
Of polished life ; permit the rural Muse, 
Chesterfield, to grace with thee her song ! 

665 Ere to the shades again she humbly flies, 
Indulge her fond ambition, in thy train, 
(For every Muse has in thy train a place,) 



250 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

To mark thy various, fall-accomplished mind ; 
To mark that spirit which, with British scorn, 

670 Rejects th' allurements of corrupted power ; 
That elegant politeness, which excels, 
E'en in the judgment of presumptuous France, 
The boasted manners of her shining court ; 
That wit, the vivid energy of sense, 

675 The truth of Nature, which, with Attic point 
And kind well-temper'd satire, smoothly keen, 
Steals through the soul, and without pain cor- 
rects. 
Or, rising thence with yet a brighter flame, 
O, let me hail thee on some glorious day, 

680 When to the listening senate, ardent, crowd 
Britannia's sons to hear her pleaded cause, 
Then dress'd by thee, more amiably fair, 
Truth the soft robe of mild persuasion wears. 
Thou to assenting reason giv'st again 

685 Her own enlighten'd thoughts ; call'd from the 
heart, 
Th' obedient passions on thy voice attend ; 
And e'en reluctant party feels a while 
Thy gracious power ; as through the varied 

maze 
Of eloquence, now smooth, now quick, now 
strong, 

690 Profound, and clear, you roll the copious flood. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 251 



THE VARIOUS OPERATIONS AND EFFECTS OF FROST. 

To thy loved haunt return, my happy Muse ; 
For now, behold, the joyous Winter days, 
Frosty, succeed; and through the blue serene, 
For sight too fine, th' ethereal nitre flies, 

695 Killing infectious damps, and the spent air 
Storing afresh with elemental life. 
Close crowds the shining atmosphere ; and binds 
Our strengthen'd bodies in its cold embrace, 
Constringent ; feeds and animates our blood ; 

700 Eefines our spirits, through the new-strung 
nerves 
In swifter sallies darting to the brain ; 
Where sits the soul, intense, collected, cool, 
Bright as the skies, and as the season keen. 
All nature feels the renovating force 

705 Of Winter, only to the thoughtless eye 
In rain seen. The frost-concocted glebe 
Draws in abundant vegetable soul, 
And gathers vigor for the corning j^ear. 
A stronger glow sits on the lively cheek 

710 Of ruddy fire ; and luculent along 

The purer rivers flow : their sullen deeps, 
Transparent, open to the shepherd's gaze, 
And murmur hoarser at the fixing frost. 



252 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

What art thou, frost ? and whence are thy 
keen stores 

715 Derived, thou secret, all-invading power, 
Whom e'en th' illusive fluid cannot fly ? 
Is not thy potent energy, unseen, 
Myriads of little salts, or hook'd, or shaped 
Like double wedges, and diffused immense 

720 Through water, earth, and ether ? Hence, at eve 
Steam'd eager from the red horizon round, 
With the fierce rage of Winter deep suffused, 
An icy gale, oft shifting, o 7 er the pool 
Breathes a blue film, and in its mid career 

725 Arrests the bickering stream. The loosen'cl ice, 
Let down the flood, and half dissolved by day, 
Bustles no more ; but to the sedgy bank 
Fast grows, or gathers round the pointed stone, 
A crystal pavement, by the breath of heaven 

730 Cemented firm ; till, seized from shore to shore, 
The whole imprison ; d river growls below, 
Loud rings the frozen earth, and hard reflects 
A double noise : while, at his evening watch, 
The village dog deters the nightly thief; 

73'5 The heifer lows ; the distant waterfall 

Swells in the breeze ; and, with the hasty tread 
Of traveller, the hollow-sounding plain, 
Shakes from afar. The full-ethereal round, 
Infinite worlds disclosing to the view, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 253 

740 Shines out intensely keen ; and, all one cope 
Of starry glitter, glows from pole to pole. 
From pole to pole the rigid influence falls, 
Through the still night, incessant, heavy, strong, 
And seizes Nature fast. It freezes on ; 

745 Till morn, late rising o'er the drooping world, 
Lifts her pale eye, unjoyous. Then appears 
The various labor of the silent night : 
Prone from the dripping eave, and dumb cascade, 
Whose idle torrents only seem to roar, 

750 The pendent icicle ; the frost-work fair, 

Where transient hues and fancied figures rise ; 
Wide-spouted o'er the hill, the frozen brook, 
A livid tract, cold gleaming on the morn ; 
The forest bent beneath the plumy wave ; 

755 And by the frost refined the whiter snow, 
Incrusted bard, and sounding to the tread 
Of early shepherd, as he pensive seeks 
His pining flock, or from the mountain top, 
Pleased with the slippery surface, swift descends. 

SPORTS ON THE ICE AND SNOW. 

760 On blithesome frolics bent, the youthful swains, 
While every work of man is laid at rest, 
Fond o'er the river crowd, in various sport 
And revelry dissolved ; where mixing glad, 
Happiest of all the train ! the raptured boy 



254 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

765 Lashes the whirling top. Or, where the Khine 
Branch'd out in many a long canal extends, 
From every province swarming, void of care, 
Batavia rushes forth : and, as they sweep, 
On sounding skates, a thousand different ways, 

770 In circling poise, swift as the winds along, 
The then gay land is madden'd all to joy. 
Nor less the northern courts, wide o'er the snow 
Pour a new pomp. Eager on rapid sleds, 
Their vigorous youth in bold contention wheel 

775 The long resounding course. Meantime to raise 
The manly strife, with highly blooming charms, 
Flush'd by the season, Scandinavia's dames, 
Or Kussia's buxom daughters glow around 

Pure, quick, and sportful is the wholesome 
day; 

780 But soon elapsed. The horizontal sun, 

Broad o'er the south, hangs at his utmost noon, 
And, ineffectual, strikes the gelid cliff. 
His azure gloss the mountain still maintains, 
Nor feels the feeble touch. Perhaps the vale 

785 Eelents a while to the reflected ray ; 

Or from the forest falls the cluster'd snow, 
Myriads of gems, that in the waving gleam 
Gay twinkle as they scatter. Thick around 
Thunders the sport of those who with the gun, 

790 And dog impatient bounding at the shot, 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 255 

Worse than the Season, desolate the fields ; 
And, adding to the ruins of the year, 
Distress the footed or the feather'd game. 

WINTER SCENES IN THE FRIGID ZONE. 

But what is this ? our infant Winter sinks 

795 Divested of his grandeur, should our eye 
Astonish 'd shoot into the frigid zone ; 
Where, for relentless months, continual night 
Holds o'er the glittering waste her starry reign 
There, through the prison of unbounded wilds, 

800 Barr'd by the hand of Nature from escape, 

Wide roams the Knssian exile. Naught around 
Strikes his sad eye but deserts lost in snow, 
And heavy-loaded groves, and solid floods, 
That stretch, athwart the solitary vast, 

805 Their icy horrors to the frozen main ; 

And cheerless towns far distant, never bless'd, 
Save when its annual course the caravan 
Bends to the golden coast of rich Cathay 
With news of humankind. Yet there life glows; 

S10 Yet cherish'd there, beneath the shining waste, 
The furry nations harbor: tipped with jet, 
Fair ermines, spotless as the snows they press ; 
Sables, of glossy black; and dark-embrown'd, 
Or beauteous freak'd with many a mingled hue, 

815 Thousands besides, the costly pride of courts. 



256 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

There, warm together press'd, the trooping deer 
Sleep on the new-fallen snows ; and, scarce his 

head 
Kais'd o er the heapy wreath, the branching elk 
Lies slumbering sullen in the white abyss. 
820 The ruthless hunter wants nor dogs nor toils ; 
Nor with the dread of sounding bows he drives 
The fearful, flying race: with ponderous clubs, 
As weak against the mountain heaps they push 
Their beating breast in vain, and piteous bray, 
825 He lays them quivering on the ensanguined 
snows, 
And with loud shouts rejoicing bears them home, 
There through the piny forest, half absorb'd, 
Rough tenant of these shades, the shapeless 

bear, 
With dangling ice all horrid, stalks forlorn. 
830 Slow-paced, and sourer as the storms increase, 
He makes his bed beneath the inclement drift, 
And with stern patience, scorning weak com- 
plaint, 
Hardens his heart against assailing want. 
Wide o'er the spacious regions of. the north, 
835 That see Bootes urge his tardy wain 

A boisterous race, by frosty Caurus pierced, 
Who little pleasure know and fear no pain, 
Prolific swarm. They once relumed the flame 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SEN7ENCE. 257 

Of lost mankind in polish'd slavery sunk ; 

840 Drove martial horde on horde, with dreadful 
sweep 
Resistless rushing o'er the enfeebled south, 
And gave the vanquish'd world another form. 
Not such the sons of Lapland : wisely they 
Despise th' insensate, barbarous trade of war ; 

845 They ask no more than simple Nature gives; 

They love their mountains, and enjoy their 

storms. 
No false desires, no pride-created wants 
Disturb the peaceful current of their time, 
And through the restless, ever tortured maze 

850 Of pleasure or ambition, bid it rage. 

Their reindeer form their riches. These their 

tents, 
Their robes, their beds, and all their homely 

wealth 
Supply ; their wholesome fare and cheerful cups. 
Obsequious at their call the docile tribe 

855 Yield to the sled their necks, and whirl them 
swift 
O'er hill and dale, heap'd into one expanse 
Of marbled snow, as far as eye can sweep, 
With a blue crust of ice unbounded glazed. 
By dancing meteors then, that ceaseless shake 

860 A waving blaze, refracted o'er the heavens, 



258 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

And vivid moons, and stars that keener play 
With double lustre from the glossy waste, 
E'en in the depth of polar night they find 
A wondrous day ; enough to light the chase, 

865 Or guide their daring steps to Finland fairs. 

Wish'd Spring returns ; and from the hazy 

south, 
While dim Aurora slowly moves before, 
The welcome sun, just verging up at" first, 
By small degrees extends the swelling curve ; 

870 Till seen at last for gay rejoicing months, 

Still round and round his spiral course he winds, 
And as he nearly dips his flaming orb, 
Wheels up again, and reascends the sky ! 
In that glad season, from the lakes and floods, 

875 Where pure Niemi's fairy mountains rise, 

And fringed with roses Tenglio rolls his stream, 
They draw the copious fry. With these, at eve, 
They, cheerful loaded, to their tents repair ; 
Where, all day long in useful cares employ 'd, 

880 Their kind, unblemish'd wives the fire prepare. 
Thrice happy race ! by poverty secured 
From legal plunder and rapacious power ; 
In whom fell interest never yet has sown [knew ? 
The seeds of vice ; whose spotless swains ne'er 

885 Injurious deed ; nor blasted by the breath 

Of faithless love, their blooming daughters woe. 



ANALYSTS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 259 

THE AWFUL GRANDEUR OF THE POLAR REGIONS. 
Still pressing on, beyond Tornea's lake, 
And Hecla flaming through a waste of snow, 
And farthest Greenland, to the pole itself, 

890 Where, failing gradual, life at length goes out, 
The Muse expands her solitary flight ; 
And, hovering o'er the wild stupendous scene, 
Beholds new seas beneath another sky. 
Throned in his palace of cerulean ice, 

895 Here Winter holds his unrejoicing court ; 
And through his airy hall the loud misrule 
Of driving tempest is forever heard : 
Here the grim tyrant meditates his wrath ; 
Here arms his winds with all-subduing frost : 

900 Moulds his fierce hail, and treasures up his 
snows, 
With which he now oppresses half the globe. 
Thence, winding eastward to the Tartars 
coast, 
She sweeps the howling margin of the main ; 
Where, undissolving from the first of time, 

905 Snows swell on snows amazing to the sky ; 
And icy mountains, high on mountains piled, 
Seem to the shivering sailor from afar, 
Shapeless and white, an atmosphere of clouds, 
Projected huge and horrid o'er the surge, 

910 Alps frown on Alps ; or, rushing hideous down. 



260 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

(As if old Chaos was again return *d,) 
Wide rend the deep, and shake the solid pole 
Ocean itself no longer can resist 
The binding fury ; but in all its rage 

915 Of tempest, taken by the boundless frost, 
Is many a fathom to the bottom chain'd, 
And bid to roar no more : a bleak expanse, 
Shagg'd o'er with wavy rocks, cheerless and 

void 
Of every life, that from the dreary months 

920 Flies conscious southward. Miserable they ! 
Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, 
Take their last look of the descending sun ; 
While, full of death and fierce with tenfold 

frost, 
The long, long night, incumbent o'er their heads, 

925 Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate, 

As with first prow (what have not Britons 

dared ?) 
He for the passage sought, attempted since 
So much in vain, and seeming to be shut 
By jealous nature with eternal bars. 

930 In these fell regions in Arzina caught, 
And to the stony deep his idle ship 
Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew, 
Each full exerted at his several task, 
Froze into statues ; to the cordage glued 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 261 

935 The sailor, and the pilot to the helm. 

Hard by these shores, where scarce his freezing 
stream 
Eolls the wild Oby, live the last of men ; 
And, half enlivened by the distant sun, 
That rears and ripens man as well as plants, 
940 Here human Nature wears its rudest form. 
Deep from the piercing season sunk in caves, 
Here by dull fires, and with unjoyous cheer, 
They waste the tedious gloom. Immersed in 

furs, 
Doze the gross race. Nor sprightly jest, nor 
song, 
945 Nor tenderness they know ; nor aught of life 
Beyond the kindred bears that stalk without ; 
Till morn at length, her roses drooping all, 
Sheds a long twilight brightening o'er their 

field, 
And calls the quivered savage to the chase. 



PETER THE GREAT, OF RUSSIA. 

950 What cannot active government perform, 

New moulding man ? Wide stretching from 

these shores, 
A people savage from remotest time, 
A huge neglected empire, one vast mind, 



262 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

By heaven inspired, from Gothic darkness 
call'd. 
955 Immortal Peter ! first of monarchs ! he 

His stubborn country tamed; her rocks, her 
fens, 

Her floods, her seas, her ill-submitting sons ; 

And while the fierce barbarian he subdued, 

To more exalted soul he raised the man. 
960 Ye shades of ancient heroes, ye who toil'd 

Through long, successive ages to build up 

A laboring plan of state, behold at once 

The wonder done ! behold the matchless prince ! 

Who left his native throne, where reign'd till 
then 
965 A mighty shadow of unreal power ; 

Who greatly spurn'd the slothful pomp of 
courts ; 

And roaming every land, in every port 

His sceptre laid aside, with glorious hand 

Unwearied plying the mechanic tool, 
970 Grather'd the seeds of trade, of useful arts, 

Of civil wisdom, and of martial skill. 

Charged with the stores of Europe, home he 
goes! 

Then cities rise amid th 7 illumined waste ; 

O'er joyless deserts smiles the rural reign ; 
975 Far distant flood to flood is social join'd ; 



ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 263 

Th' astonish'd Euxine hears the Baltic roar ; 
Proud navies ride on seas that never foam'd 
With daring keel before; and armies stretch 
Each way their dazzling files, repressing here 

980 The frantic Alexander of the North, 

And awing their stern Othman's shrinking sons. 
Sloth flies the land, and ignorance and vice, 
Of old dishonor prgud. It glows around, 
Taught by the Royal Hand that roused the 
whole, 

985 One scene of arts, of arras, of rising trade : 

For what his wisdom plann'd, and power en- 
forced, 
More potent still, his great example showed. 

FROST SUCCEEDED BY A THAW. 

Muttering, the winds at eve, with blunted 
point, 
Blow hollow blustering from the south. Sub- 
dued, 
990 The frost resolves into a trickling thaw. 

Spotted the mountains shine ; loose sleet de- 
scends, 
And floods the country round. The rivers swell, 
Of bonds impatient. Sudden from the hills, 
O'er rocks and woods, in broad, brown cataracts, 

995 A thousand snow-fed torrents shoot at once ; 
12 



264 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

And, where they rush, the wide-resounding 

plain 
Is left one slimy waste. Those sullen seas, 
That wash'd th' ungenial pole, will rest no more 
Beneath the shackles of the mighty north ; 
1000 But, rousing all their waves, resistless heave. 

And hark ! the lengthening roar continuous 

runs «> 

Athwart the rifted deep ; at once it bursts, 
And piles a thousand mountains to the clouds. 
Ill fares the bark, with trembling wretches 
charged, 
1005 That, toss'd amid the floating fragments, moors 
Beneath the shelter of an icy isle ; 
While night overwhelms the sea, and horror 

looks 
More horrible. Can human force endure 
Th' assembled mischiefs that besiege them 
round : 
1010 Heart-gnawing hunger, fainting weariness, 

The roar of winds and waves, the crush of ice, 
Now ceasing, now renewed with louder rage, 
And in dire echoes bellowing round the main ? 
More to embroil the deep, Leviathan, 
1015 And his unwieldy train, in dreadful sport, 

Tempest the loosen'd brine ; while through the 
gloom, 






ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 265 

Far from the bleak, inhospitable shore, 
Loading the winds, is heard the hungry howl 
Of famish'd monsters, there awaiting wrecks. 
1020 Yet Providence, that ever-waking Eye, 
Looks down with pity on the feeble toil 
Of mortals, lost to hope, and lights them safe, 
Through all this dreary labyrinth of fate. 

THE SEASONS A PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE. 

7 Tis done! dread Winter spreads his latest 
glooms, 
1025 And reigns tremendous o'er the conquered year. 
How dead the vegetable kingdom lies ! 
How dumb the tuneful ! Horror wide extends 
His desolate domain. Behold, fond man ! 
See here thy pictured life: Pass some few years, 
1030 Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent 
strength, 
Thy sober Autumn fading into age, i 

And pale concluding Winter comes at last, 
And shuts the scene. Ah! whither now are 

fled 
Those dreams of greatness? those unsolid hopes 
1035 Of happiness? those longings after fame? 

Those restless cares ? those busy, bustling days ? 
Those gay-spent, festive nights ? those veering 
thoughts, 






266 ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

Lost between good and ill, that shared thy life ? 
All now are vanish'd ! Yirtue sole survives, 

1040 Immortal, never-failing friend of man, 

His guide to happiness on high. And see ! 
"Tis eome, the glorious morn ! the second birth 
Of heaven and earth ! Awakening Nature hears 
The new-creating word, and starts to life, 

1045 In every heightened form, from pain and death 
Forever free. The great eternal scheme, 
Involving all, and in a perfect whole 
Uniting, as the prospect wider spreads, 
To reason's eye refined clears up apace. 

1050 Ye vainly wise I ye blind presumptuous f now. 
Confounded in the dust, adore that Power 
And Wisdom oft arraign'd : see now the cause, 
Why unassuming worth in secret lived, 
And died neglected ; why the good man's share 

1055 In life was gall and bitterness of soul; 

Why the lone widow and her orphans pined 

In starving solitude, while Luxury, ' 

In palaces, lay straining her low though fe, 

To form unreal wants ; why heaven-born Truth 

1060 And Moderation fair, wore the red marks 

Of Superstition's scourge j why licensed Pain, 
Trat cruel spoiler, that embosom'd foe, 
Embittered all our bliss. Ye good distress'd I 
Ye noble few ! who here unbending stand 



.ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 267 

1065 Beneath life's pressure, yet bear up a while, 

And what your bounded view, which only saw 
A little part deem'd evil, is no more : 
The storms of Wintry Time wall quickly pass, 
And one unbounded Spring encircle all. 



THE END. 



NATIONAL SERIES 

F 

STANDARD SCHOOL BOOKS. 

ANALYSIS 

OF 

THE ENGLISH SENTENCE. 

BY A. S. WELCH, 

PRINCIPAL OF THE MICHIGAN STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 



A. S. Barnes & Compaq y, Publishers. 51 John Street, New 
York, are happy in being able to announce to Teachers and the 
Educational Public, that this new and advanced work on Gram- 
mar has just been issued from their press, forming a valuable 
addition to their truly " National Series." 

Many of its prominent features have been presented by lectures 
to Teachers' Institutes, and unanimously approved. The classi- 
fication, founded upon the fact that there are but three elements 
in the language, is very simple, and, in many respects, new. The 
method of disposing of connectives is entirely new. The author has 
endeavored to study the language as it is ) and to analyze it with- 
out the aid of antiquated rules. This system is intended for 
pupils who are already acquainted with the elements of English 
grammar. 



From Hon. Ira Mayhew, Superintendent of Public Instruction^ 

Michigan. 
Of the merits of c: Welch's English Sentence' 7 I cannot confi- 
dently speak, not having had leisure thoroughly to examine the 
work. But Prof. Welch having delivered a course of lectures on 
English Grammar before a series of Teachers 1 Institutes in this 



2 Welch's analysis. 

State, under my supervision, before the publication of the work 
referred to, and again before another series of Institutes, since its 
publication, I can speak, in terms of strong approval, of the per- 
tinency and fitness of his services on these occasions : and I would 
hence infer that his work cannot fail to be very valuable. 

Ira Mayhew. 
Albion, Michigan^ October 22c?, 1855. 



Front the February No. of the Michigan Journal of Education— 
Prof. J. M. Gregory, Editor. 

No work on English Grammar hitherto published has met our 
mind like this. Its analysis of the elemental parts and relations 
of the English sentence is severe and exhaustive. The idioms 
and constructive laws of the language are clearly explained, and 
there seems scarcely an inch of the ground that the author has 
not measured and described. Indeed, one cannot read the book 
without a feeling that he is following the lead of an intellect that 
has thoroughly explored every step of the way. The book was 
laboriously thought out by one who never rests satisfied but with 
positive and proven truth. We propose to give some more de- 
tailed statement of whatever is peculiar in its views in another 
number. 

On the whole, the book is a noble contribution to philological 
science, and we return the author our hearty thanks. Its gene- 
ral use in the school-room will tend much to a correct knowledge 
and use of our vernacular. 



From J. R. Boise, A.M., Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages 
in the University of Michigan. 

This work belongs to a new era in the grammatical study of 
our own language. Although accurate scholars have long been 
in the habit of analyzing the Latin and Greek languages, yet they 
have seldom applied the same processes with equal care to the 
study of English. The result has been, that our ordinary treatises 
on the grammar of our language have been exceedingly unsatis- 
factory and unphilosophical. The old method of " parsing," as 



Welch's analysis. 3 

we tried to learn it in our school-boy days, was little better than 
a game of chance ; and the first rays of light which ever pierced 
the darkness and disclosed to us anything of philosophy in the 
structure of language, beamed from the pages of the Latin gram- 
mar. The deficiency of which we had so much reason to complain 
no longer exists. Already several works on the structure of the 
English language, of a more philosophical character, have been 
published. It is not to our present purpose to speak of them par- 
ticularly, or to compare them with the work before us. We haz- 
ard nothing, however, in expressing the opinion, that for severe, 
searching, and exhaustive analysis, the work of Professor Welch 
is second to none of them. His book is not intended for beginners, 
but only for advanced students, and by such only will it be under- 
stood and appreciated. Indeed, we fear that many who consider 
themselves " advanced students,*' and possibly some who are en- 
gaged as teachers, may not like so much study as this book will 
require of them : but we take the liberty of suggesting a fact 
which is not quite new, that the world does not stand still, and 
teachers above ali other men can ill afford to lie on their oars. 
Those who are either too indolent or too ignorant to master the 
principles of this book, will soon find themselves unable to meet 
the demands which will be made on the teachers of Michigan. 

In conclusion, we venture to predict that Professor Welch's 
book, though a small and unpretending volume, will make its 
mark, not on the sand, but where it will be seen long hence. 

J. R. Boise. 

University of Michigan, May 7 th. 1855. 



Board of Education, Detroit. 

The following is from the proceedings of the Board of Education 
of Detroit, as reported in the Free Press of April 27th, 1855. 

The Committee on Teachers and School Books, Messrs. Duffield. 
Byram and Wadleigh, reported that they had examined a late 
work called the " English Sentence," by Professor Welch, of Ypsi- 
lanti, which is a very superior analysis of the various principles 
of English grammar, and a book well calculated to promote a 



4 Welch's analysis. 

more thorough 'knowledge of the English tongue than that deriv- 
able from the ordinary grammars heretofore adopted by the Board 
and used in our schools. They therefore recommended that said 
book be placed on the list of text-books for the schools, and that 
the Committee on Teachers and Schools be authorized to intro- 
duce said book into such of our schools, and on such terms, as 
they may deem best. Adopted. 



From Professor Alfred Stebbins, A.M., Principal of the Young 
Men's Academy, Monroe, Michigan. 

The English Sentence. By A. S. Welch, A.M.— Prof. Welch 
has conferred a great benefit upon the cause of Education by pre- 
senting so full, so scientific, and, therefore, so simple an ''Analysis 
of the English Sentence." It must be gratifying to every lover 
of science to see such teachings as those of the "Analysis " substi- 
tuted for the silly jargon under the old order of things — the point- 
ing out of relations and offices substituted for the mere enumera- 
tion of genders, cases, &c. Alfred Stebbins. 

Monroe, May 4th, 1854. 

From Professor E. L. Ripley, A.M., Principal of the Jackson 

Union School. 

Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co. — I have had, for the last three 
months, a large class in u Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence." 
Judging from the progress which the class have made in a philo- 
sophical knowledge of the English language, as well as from a 
personal examination of the work, I am prepared to recommend 
it to all those who would become thoroughly acquainted with 
their mother tongue. E. L. Ripley. 

Jackson, March 20th, 1855. 



Testimonial from Dr. D. Clark, President Flint Scientific Insti- 
tute ; Dr. M. Miles, Librarian Scientific Institute ; Prof. M. 
B. Be ales, Principal Union School. 

The Analysis of the English Sentence, by Prof. Welch, in our 
opinion, occupies a very high position in developing the structure 



TTELCIl's ANALYSIS. 5 

of our language upon philosophical principles j and for its clear 

and rigid analysis it has no superior. 

D. Clark, 
M. Miles, 
M. B. Beales. 
Flint, October 29^, 1855. 



From Professor E. J. Boyd, A. M., Principal of Young Ladies 1 
Seminary. Monroe, Michigan. 

I have examined u Welch's Analysis of the English Sentence" 
with considerable attention, and take pleasure in saying, that the 
work appears to me to be characterized in a very high degree 
by a thorough and scientific spirit. There is a philosophic clear- 
ness in the arrangement and statement of its grammatical principles. 

The analysis of sentences is admirable, and a valuable improve- 
ment upon the old plan. I like its change in phraseology. I do 
not hesitate in saying that the work is an admirable one. and I 
think we shall introduce it into this institution next term. 

E. J. Boyd. 

Monroe, May 24, 1855 



From Professor E. W. Chesebro, A. M., Principal of the Grand 
Rapids Union School, and Assistant Teachers. 

We, the subscribers, teachers of Grand Rapids, Mich., having 
examined Professor Welch's new work, entitled the " English Sen- 
tence," would say that we have been much pleased in its perusal, 
and believe that the author has earned the lasting gratitude of the 
rising generation in so successfully diverting our befogged langu%e 
from the clouds and mists with which it has been enveloped by 
our standard grammarians. We cannot but wish it an extensive 
introduction into all our schools. 

E. W. Chesebro. Caroline B. Thompson, 

Wm. Rice, Phebe S. Thorne, 

M. S. LlTTLEFIELD, CATHARINE Mc VeAU. 



6 WELCHES ANALYSIS. 

From H. Olcott, Principal Capitol School, Detroit, Michigan, 

Detroit, May 14, 1855. 
I have examined a copy of ' : The English Sentence/ 5 by Profes- 
sor Welch, of the Normal School, and do not hesitate to pronounce 
it a superior work. The definitions are clear and exact, and the 
analysis philosophical. Every portion of the work affords evi- 
dence of laborious research, and the author's thorough practical 
knowledge of the English language. I think the work justly 
merits its rapidly increasing popularity, and should be more gen- 
erally found with teachers and advanced classes. 

H. Olcott. 



From Professor J. C. Cochran, Principal of Clarkston Academy , 
Clarkston, Michigan. 

Clarkston, February 1, 1855. 
B. B. Northrop, Esq. 

Sir : — I have just finished a critical examination of " The 
English Sentence,"' by Professor A. S. Welch, of the State Normal 
School, and must say, that its equal I have never seen. Under 
the skilful hand of the author, the science of grammar has been 
effectually cleared of its numerous redundancies and useless intri- 
cacies, while the student is led by a plain way to understand the 
true genius of our language with a clearness of apprehension 
hitherto unparalleled in the progress of science. 

The work cannot fail to secure the favor of every intelligent 
and unprejudiced teacher, and also to become the text-book of 
grammar in the advanced classes of all those institutions where 
the development of mind is made the grand object and end of all 
study. J. C. Cochran. 

• 

From Professor A. M. Keeler, Principal Disco Academy, Disco, 

Macomb Co.. Mich. 

Professor Welch's Analysis is a happy effort in the direction of 
practical reform ; its simplicity, adaptation, and comprehensive- 
ness, promise extensive popularity, and make it indispensable to 
teachers. A. M. Keeler. 



WELCEl's ANALYSIS. 7 

From the Michigan Christian Herald. Rev. G. W. Harris. Editor. 

Analysis of the English Sentence, designed for the advanced 
classes in English Grammar. By A. S. Welch, A. M., Princi- 
pal of Michigan State Normal School. New York : A. S. 
Barnes & Co. 

The object of Professor Welch here is to contribute to a more 
philosophical study of the English language. He has not only, 
professedly, subjected the English sentence to a more philosophical 
analysis, but made the analysis a more important agency in the 
process of mental development. It also introduces important 
changes in the classification and nomenclature of the old gram- 
mars. We have not had time for the examination we should 
wish, in order to express a decided opinion of its merits ; but have 
indicated its existence, and something of its character, for the pur- 
pose of calling to it the attention of teachers. Professor Welch is 
known as one of the most capable and successful instructors in 
the West; and his views on such a subject will at least commend 
themselves to the careful scrutiny of literary men. 



From Rev. H. H. Northrop, A. M., Regent of the University of 

Michigan. 

FLiNi, October 31, 1855. 
Prof. A. S. Welch. 

Dear Sir : — Permit me to express my high opinion of your 

" Analysis of the English Sentence," a copy r[ which was received 

a few weeks since. I deem your work tho riost thorough, logical 

and complete analysis of our language yet published. No one 

can carefully examine it and compare it with the most popular 

grammars twenty years ago, without being satisfied that a great 

advance has been made in the study of the English language. 

If I am not altogether in error, your Analysis will do much to 

aid the student in rapidly attaining a thorough acquaintance 

with his mother tongue. A study, the dread of every youth, has 

been made both intelligent and delightful. I trust the attention 

of educators, generally, will soon br i/urned to the excellencies of 

your work. Truly yours, &c, 

H. H. Northrop. 



8 Welch's analysis. 

From, the Detroit Daily Democrat. 

The English Sentence. — It is difficult to judge of the intrin- 
sic and practical merits of a grammatical treatise, from a mere 
cursory examination, such only as we have been able to give the 
work now before us ; but knowing as we do the eminent success 
which has attended the instructions of the author, and having on 
one or two occasions witnessed the operation of the system here so 
fully explained under his own teaching, we do not hesitate to wel- 
come this volume as a most valuable aid, both to teachers and 
students of that difficult science. 

The above treatise, as stated in the preface, is designed to fol- 
low Clark's New English Grammar, one of the most unexception- 
able now in use. It should not merely follow, but go with it. 
especially in every teacher's hand j as a more full and thorough 
underseanding of the philosophy of language, and of the method 
of analysis, are absolute necessities to instructors, if they would 
create in the minds of their pupils a love for this hitherto unat- 
tractive study. There are some, even among experienced teach- 
ers, who doubt that grammar .ever can be made a subject of inter- 
est to the young : let such study and put in practice the analytic 
system, and, if possible, attend at least one session of the State 
Teachers' Institute, or put themselves for one term under the tui- 
tion of teachers who do understand and practice it : they will soon 
see what a subject of absorbing interest even grammar may be- 
come. 

This breaking in of the old nomenclature, and searching out 
relations understandingly, instead of repeating words by rote and 
blindly applying incomprehensible rules, is what has done the 
work wherever it has been done : and the sooner both teachers 
and pupils universally lay aside the letter for the spirit of the 
text, the better. Mr. Welch's treatise on the Analysis of the Eng- 
lish Sentence will go far to aid them in doing this, and we hearti- 
ly commend it to the careful study of all who desire to gain a 
more intimate knowledge of the construction of the English lan- 
guage. 



Welch's analysis. 9 

From the Daily Tribune. 

Analysis of the English Sentence — designed for advanced 
classes in English Grammar. By A. S. Welch, A.M., Frincipal 
of Michigan State Normal School. New York, A. S. Barnes fy Co. 

We have just received the above work from the publishers. We 
have had time to bestow only a cursory examination upon the 
work, and would not be enabled to express a decided opinion as 
to its merits. But the name of Prof. Welch is a sufficient guaran- 
ty of its excellence and adaptation to the existing wants of sholars 
in this branch. His reputation is established among the educators 
of our State, as one of the foremost among their number, so that 
we may with confidence recommend any work that comes from 
his pen. 



From the Genesee Whig, Flint, Michigan. 
Analysis of the English Sentence, by A. S. Welch, A.M., 
Principal of Michigan State Normal School. — This is an advanced 
work, designed for higher classes in Academies and Normal 
Schools. Prof. Welch has brought to the task he has undertaken 
a keen and cultivated intellect, large experience, and a full sense 
of the importance of establishing a more philosophical system for 
the study of our language. That his work will be successful, we 
cannot doubt. Rev. S. Seager, of the Genesee Wesley an Semina- 
ry, N. Y., says of it : Li The ' English Sentence ' is now before 
me, and I am highly pleased with it, and shall make good use of 
it. It is a model book of its kind, and will be popular.*' 



From the Detroit Daily Advertiser. 

The English Sentence — By A. S. Welch, Principal of the 
Michigan State Normal School, at Ypsilanti. Published by A. S. 
Barnes fy Co., New York. 

The name of this book gives a concise statement of its character. 
It is designed to follow Clark's Grammar, in order that the student 
may rid himself of the trammels of old formulas, and learn to 
think for himself what relations different words, clauses, and sen- 
tences sustain to each other. Such a work has long been needed, 



10 Welch's analysis. 

and we are happy to announce it from the hand of one of our citi* 
zens. Mr. Welch has attained an enviable notoriety as a -teacher, 
and knows the wants of the students so well that with but slight 
examination we do not hesitate to recommend his book to all 
teachers and students. 



From the Detroit Daily Free Press. 

The English Sentence. By A. S. Welch, Principal of the 
Michigan State Normal School. — We have received from the Pub- 
lishers, A. S. Barnes & Co., this treatise, which is designed as a 
continuation of Clark's New Grammar. It has received the sanc- 
tion of numerous State Institutes, and has been subjected to 
thorough trial as a text-book in the advanced classes of our own 
Normal School. The philosophy of language has been but recent- 
ly developed. To the student of Murray and Kirkham, no latent 
meaning was couched under the dry formulas and rules which 
they mechanically committed to memory. The more enlightened 
grammarians of the present day endeavor to render the systematic 
analysis of the English sentence a means of development. This 
end is attained by a more simple and just classification, and fre- 
quently by a more rational nomenclature. We are confident that 
this work, which is the result of the practical experiments of an 
accomplished philologist, will be duly appreciated by the teachers 
in our common schools and seminaries. 



From the Kalamazoo Telegraph, Kalamazoo, Michigan. 
The English Sentence. — This is the title of a work just 
issued from the house of A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, and 
written by A. S. Welch, A. M., Principal of the Michigan State 
Normal School. It is designed to carry the student of the English 
language from his elementary work up to the philosophy — the ra- 
tionale — of the science ; teach him strictly to analyze the struc- 
ture of the English sentence, and once putting him in possession 
of the fundamental principles of our language, he can trace out 
for himself the superstructure, detect innovations, and recognize 
every modification it has undergone since the Conquest. With 



Welch's analysis. 11 

this book, and perhaps as a suggestive field of investigation, " Diver 
sions of Purley," the student can soon make himself master of this 
all-important Science and Art. 



From the Michigan Argus, Ann Arbor. 

The English Sentence. — We have received a copy of the 
above work. From the examination which we have given it, we 
do not hesitate to say that it deserves, and we doubt not will com- 
mand the attention of educators. The author, Prof. Welch, Prin- 
cipal of our State Normal School, has long been known not only 
as a critical student, but also as a successful teacher of the philo- 
sophy of the English language. 



From the New York Express. 
" The writer of the book before us, from his associations as a 
tutor and the course of his former studies in the attainment of his 
degrees, is presented to us in a light the most favorable for the 
emanation of a work on grammatical structure and analysis ; add 
to which the consultation of and access to the best writers on the 
subject undertaken, and we may, with propriety, look for a useful 
and perfect work. We have attentively perused the volume, and 
were much pleased at the simplicity of style with which the 
various truths are set forth, in place of the antiquated nomencla- 
ture and numberless rules which in former times were found so 
difficult to surmount in the study of the written and spoken lan- 
guage of our country. Old formulas are totally banished, while 
the philosophy of language has been exemplified." 



From Rev. S. Seager, Principal of Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, N.Y. 
u Welch's English Sentence I am highly pleased with, and shall 
make good use of it. It is a model look of its kind, and will bo 
popular." 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 

KAMES'S ELEMENTS OF CRITICISM. 

REVISED, WITH OMISSIONS, ADDITIONS, AND A NEW ANALYSIS, 
BY PROFESSOR J. R. BOYD. 

Designed for Academies, Colleges, and Private Reading. 

The above work is not an abridgment of Karnes, but embraces 
the entire work, with the exception only of those portions which 
every instructor and intelligent reader must regard as blemishes, 
or consider useless, while large additions have been made, from 
recent and valuable sources, to render more complete and satis- 
factory the incomparable treatise (as here presented) of this highly 
talented and justly distinguished author. 



From Dr. Nott, President of Union College, N. Y. 

Having recently seen a volume of " Karnes's Elements of Criti- 
cism," revised, with omissions and additions, and a new analysis*, 
it gives me pleasure to add my testimony to the merits of the vo- 
lume. Though not agreeing with Karnes in all the principles he 
assumes, or in all the arguments he adduces, his Elements are, as 
a whole, too well known, and too highly esteemed to need my 
commendation. The most valuable parts of these Elements have 
been preserved, and the arrangement greatly improved in this 
single volume of Mr. Boyd's. Much of what has been omitted 
could be spared without material injury, and much of what has 
been added is very valuable. 

On the whole, I can cheerfully commend this volume to the 
public, and hope that the Editor may receive a deserved and 
liberal requital for his labors. 

(Signed) Eliph't Nott. 

Union College, June, 1855. 



From the New York Evangelist. 

Kames's Elements. — Prof. Boyd, well known by his annotated 
editions of the standard poets, has prepared an edition of this ad- 
mirable treatise on criticism, for the use of schools. The peculi- 
arities of this edition are, that some of the long and irrelevant ex- 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 13 

tracts, particularly those in foreign tongues, have been omitted, 
and the space supplied by quotations from other critical and rhe- 
torical writers, bearing upon the discussed topics. The appendix, 
also, of the old work, has been brought forward and placed, as it 
should be, with the introductory matter. Other corrections are 
made, which adapt the work for present use, and clip off its ex- 
crescences. We have always placed a high estimate upon this 
work. It is more complete, philosophical and useful than any 
similar treatise in the language ; and though somewhat verbose 
and grandiose, it is still worthy of a place in the school-room. 
Teachers who appreciate its worth will thank Prof. Boyd for the 
decided improvements he has made in it. (A. S. Barnes & Co.) 



From the Commercial Review. 

This is one of the few educational works that have come down 
to us from the middle of the last century, still holding a high rank 
even amid the daring innovations of American progressiveness on 
the routine of college studies. The titled author of George the 
Third's reign is still engaged in refining the taste of our youth in 
respect to the beauties of art and of nature. The " Elements n 
possess so much of intrinsic merit that we are glad to see them 
better fitted for a class-book by the hand of the able editor of this 
edition. Some of the quotations, which a higher state of refine- 
ment has made objectionable, have been omitted, and a decided 
improvement will be observed in the arrangement, while a large 
amount of valuable matter has been introduced, carefully selected 
from modern authors on subjects treated more accurately and 
philosophically than was possible in Lord Karnes's day. 

The merits of this edition will do much to extend the useful- 
ness of a valuable book, very extensively studied now, but de- 
serving a still wider range. 



14 RECOMMENDATIONS. 

CLARK'S GRAMMATICAL WORKS, 

Clark's First Lessons in English Grammar in press, 

Clark's Analysis of the English Language $0 37£ 

Clark's New English Grammar 56 

Clark's Etymological Chart 2 00 

CLARK'S ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, 

WITH A COMPLETE CLASSIFICATION OF 

Sentences and Phrases, according to their Grammatical Structure 

In this work the Author designs to show what the Language k 
to investigate the theory of " Sentence making;" to determine wh*-;» 
are elements in a sentence, and what are not ; to distinguish proxi- 
mate from ultimate elements; to classify sentences according to 
their forms, &c. 



From W. H. Depuy, Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, N. Y. 
" We are using c Clark's Analysis' to the great interest and ad- 
vantage of our classes. Several members of the Teachers' Depart- 
ment have introduced it as a text-book in their winter schools, and 
without exception give it their hearty approval." 



From J. C. Donaldson, West field Academy, N. Y. 

" Clark's Analysis has proved itself to be all it claims — a 
thorough and complete analysis of the English sentence." 



CLARK'S ENGLISH GRAMMAR, 

REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION, 

Is one of the best works of the kind ever brought before the public. 
It needs only a careful examination by Teachers and those inter- 
ested in educational matters, to secure its general introduction 
into.our schools. It is the text-book recommended by the State 
Superintendents of Michigan, Illinois and Missouri. Those who 
have used the former editions of this work should take the earliest 
opportunity to examine the revised edition. 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 15 

Science of the English Language, by S. W. Clark. Principal 
of Homer Academy. 

We cannot better set forth the merits of this work than by 
quoting a part of a communication from Professor F. S. Jewell, 
of the New York State Normal School, in which school this 
Grammar is now used as the text-book on this subject : 

" Clark's system of Grammar is worthy of the marked attention 
of the friends of education. Its points of excellence are of the 
most decided character, and will not soon be surpassed. Among 
them are : 

" 1st. The justness of its ground principle of classification. 
There is no simple, philosophical, and practical classification of 
the elements of language, other than that built on their use or 
office. Our tendencies hitherto to follow the analogies of the clas- 
sical languages, and classify extensively according to forms, have 
been mischievous and absurd. It is time we corrected them. 

u 2d. Its thorough and yet simple and transparent analysis of 
the elements of the language according to its ground principle. 
Without such an analysis no broad and comprehensive view of the 
structure and power of the language can be attained. The absence 
of this analysis has hitherto precipitated the study of Grammar 
upon a surface of dry details and bare authorities, and useless 
technicalities. 

" 3d. Its happy method of illustrating the relations of elements 
by diagrams. These, however uncouth they may appear to the 
novice, are really simple and philosophical. • Of their utility there 
can be no question. It is supported by the usage of other sciences, 
and has been demonstrated by experience in this. 

" 4th. The tendency of the system, when rightly taught and 
faithfully carried out, to cultivate habits of nice discrimination 
and close reasoning, together with skill in illustrating truth. In 
this it is not excelled by any, unless it be the mathematical sci- 
ences, and even there it has this advantage, that it deals with 
elements more within the present grasp of the intellect. On this 
point I speak advisedly. 

u 5th. The system is thoroughly progressive and practical, and 



1 6 RECOMMENDATIONS. 

as such American in its character. It does not adhere to old usages, 
merely because they are venerably musty ; and yet it does not 
discard things merely because the/ are old, or are in unimportant 
minutiae not prudishly perfect. It does not overlook details and 
technicalities, nor does it allow them to interfere with plain phi- 
losophy or practical utility. 

" Let any clear-headed, independent-minded teacher master the 
system, and then give it a fair trial, and there will be no doubt a& 
to his testimony." 

Of the revised edition, Professor Jewell remarks : 



New York State Normal School, ) 



Albany, May 9, 1855. 
" I have carefully examined the revised edition of Clark's Gram- 
mar. No comparison can be instituted between it and the pre- 
ceding one. It is infinitely, superior in every respect. I have no 
hesitation in recommending it." 



CLARK'S ETYMOLOGICAL CHART. 

It is 44 inches in diameter, mounted, and can be suspended to 
the wall, around which the reciting class may be gathered, each 
pupil having his attention directed to the same thing at the same 
time. This Chart presents at one view the entire Etymology of 
the English Language. It is useful in reviews and Etymological 
parsing. 

A host of teachers have expressed their preference for Clark's 
system of English Grammar, and his method of teaching this im- 
portant branch of study by the use of diagrams 



BROOKFIELD'S FIRST BOOK IN COMPOSITION, 

ON AN ENTIRE NEW PLAN. 

This little work is an attempt to furnish a text-book in this de- 
partment, adapted to the wants of beginners. Subjects have been 
selected upon which the thoughts of all children exercise them- 
selves spontaneously ; and an outline of each given in the form of 



RECOMMENDATIONS. 17 

a series of questions. This form has been chosen upon the prin- 
ciple that, in answering a question, the mind is forced to take an 
attitude of the highest activity. It also possesses the advantage 
of leading the child to express his thoughts in writing in the same 
manner as in conversation. It is hoped that the above work may 
save many hours of fruitless effort to the child, and that what is 
generally considered an unpleasant task, may be rendered a 
pleasing and profitable exercise. 



From the Boston Traveller. 
First Book in Composition. — We like the idea on which this 
little book is founded, and that the very simplest lessons only in 
the construction of sentences should at first be presented to a pupil 
in commencing his studies of composition. The old method of 
laying before school-boys eseays and argumentative discourses 
fit only for the maturest reason, reverses the natural order of 
things : and thus what might at all times be a delightful and pro- 
fitable study for youth is rendered distasteful. The evil arises 
from ignoring the great truth that style should rather be cultivated 
than inculcated — and that it is something which should " grow 
with the growth and strengthen with the strength," as one after 
another the faculties become developed and duly balanced. 



From the New York Times. 

This little book ought to be in every School of the city. No 
more original, simple, and yet philosophical school-book for chil- 
dren has appeared for years. In the most childlike mode, it 
teaches the principles which really should govern all style : first 
to lead the mind to observe, and then to give its own names to its 
own objects of thought. Not, for instance, to call a brook 
" purling," or the grass " vernal," or a flower "lovely," merely 
because the books do, but to give each the name which the child 
would naturally fix upon it ; going on the principle u that style is 
something which must grow with the growth, and strengthen with 
the strength" — a natural out-growth of the mind. The plan in 
this treatise, is first to present simple subjects, in which all chil- 



18 RECOMMENDATIONS. 

dren are interested; then on each one to call out their thoughts by 
questions. These subjects are generally connected with natural 
scenes, as one of the author's objects is " to lead the child to look 
upon Nature with something of an artist's eye." The whole is 
exceedingly ingeniously and interestingly done : and the purpose 
of the book cannot be better stated than in the author's own words, 
" to lead the child to Nature, as to an ever-living source of 
Thought ; to awaken and cultivate his Perceptions • to teach him 
to express those perceptions, not in the style of a Scott or an 
Irving, but in his own simple and often beautiful language." 



From the New York Independent. 
It cultivates his observing faculties, and leads them up step by 
step from the simplest objects which the child deals with, to the 
more fine and beautiful features of nature. The writer's object is 
to lead the child, so far as he is capable, u to look upon the varied 
scenes of nature with something of an artist's eye." We believe 
such a system is equally adapted to all ages. To make people 
put their own words to their own definite thoughts , that is the secret 
of it ; and in this book, to set the child thinking first, by making 
him observe. 



From P. Rouget, Principal of Public School No. 10. 

Brooklyn, Oct. 2c/, 1855. 
The author evidently understands the difficulties under which 
the tyro in composition labors; and by a judicious selection of 
subjects, and a happy treatment of these subjects by means of a 
few leading questions, draws forth the youthful mind, and teaches 
it to think methodically and arrange the expression of its thoughts. 
He does not write out a subject, and omit here and there a few 
words which the scholar is to supply ; nor does he merely state 
the subject and leave the pupil to compose thereon ; but adopts 
the true course which lies between the two. This little manual 
must prove very useful in this important branch of education, 
and I hope it will soon be adopted by the Brooklyn Board of Edu- 
cation. I cannot speak too highly of its merits and its adaptation 
to the wants of our schools. 



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